...Jon Aarum Andersen Purpose This paper aims to demonstrate the efforts of Hay Youssef and Tang (2019) to reaffirm the importance of managerial discretion is unsuccessful. Design/methodology/approach Theoretical frameworks from traditional and recent literature on the concept of managerial...

...Moustafa Salman Haj Youssef; Da Teng Purpose The purpose of this study is to refute the work of Andersen (2017) by suggesting a different theoretical view and to argue that the concept of managerial discretion is one of the core dimensions that cannot be discarded when studying corporate...

...Jon Aarum Andersen Purpose This paper aims to assess the concept of managerial discretion with respect to its theoretical and empirical usefulness for corporate governance research. Design/methodology/approach This paper scrutinises applied theoretical claims, definitions and methods, as well...