... Pornsit Jiraporn can be contacted at: pjiraporn@gmail.com 01 09 2019 12 01 2020 06 03 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Gender diversity Earnings management Board of directors Female directors Shareholder...

... agency conflict because of their high level of concentrated ownership structure or family ownership, this study intends to investigate the effects of the corporate board of directors and its sub-committee characteristics, and the ownership structures on firm financial performance. Further, attention may...

... independence Board of directors Corporate environmental performance Gender diversity Sustainability committee Global demand for more balanced corporate boards has forced companies to increase female representation on these boards. For example, recent data from the Australian Institute of Company...

... practice nor disclosed an explanation (Lama, 2013). Warwick Wyndham Anderson can be contacted at: warwick.anderson@canterbury.ac.nz © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Board of directors Compliance Australian stock exchange Company characteristics Corporate governance principles...

... little clue as to the overall state and evolution of NZ boards. The paper also identifies a number of questions for further research. Corporate governance Board of directors New Zealand Board structure Over the last 25 years, the role of corporate governance has been extensively discussed...