Abstract Research Question/Issue Over the last decades, research on the relationship
between national institutions, governance mechanisms, and firm outcomes has been …

Shareholder activism is an important driver of corporate change. Yet, the phenomenon has
primarily been studied within disciplinary silos, providing only a partial understanding of the …

Dominant family control reduces Type I agency conflicts because of monitoring efficiencies,
while increasing Type II agency conflicts because of the family's voting power. Additionally …

Names: Bebbington, Jan (Professor of accountancy and sustainable development), editor.|
Larrinaga, Carlos, 1967–editor.| O'Dwyer, Brendan, 1968–editor.| Thomson, Ian, 1962 …

This systematic literature review analyses the determinants and consequences of executive
compensation-related shareholder activism and say-on-pay (SOP) votes. The review covers …

We study family firm status as an important condition in signaling theory; specifically, we
propose that the market reacts more positively to positive, and more negatively to negative …

We investigate the effect of expressive shareholder dissent voting, in which shareholders
use their votes symbolically to express their discontent with management, on subsequent …

Given the growing corporate social responsibility (CSR) pressures to increase board gender
diversity and the scrutiny afforded to firms that fail to appoint female directors, one may …

Abstract Research Question/Issue This study investigates how and to what extent country‐
level institutional characteristics and firm‐and independent director‐level risk and …

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the extent of shareholder engagement and
satisfaction with corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports of a Chinese-owned company …