scholarly journals Benchmarking boards of directors for better corporate governance

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-18
Author(s):  
Hugh Grove ◽  
Mac Clouse ◽  
Tracy Xu
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Market Performance ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Corporate Board ◽  
Governance Practices

The key question and major lessons learned in this research are that individual companies and their boards of directors could use the board director benchmarking information compiled in the Conference Board Report to assess their own boards of directors’ corporate governance practices. For an initial benchmarking approach, this paper compared a poor long-term market performance company (Grove & Clouse, 2019) with a strong long-term market performance company (Grove & Lockhart, 2019). The following benchmarked differences in the boards of directors of these two companies were key success factors for constellation: specific industry knowledge, younger directors, coaching/nurturing, involved roles, long-term compensation of directors, no board entrenchment, board assessment, and board committee rotation. The major sections of this paper are literature review, corporate board practices, benchmarking board of directors: poor long-term market performance example, benchmarking board of directors: strong long-term market performance example, conclusions, and future research. A major limitation of this paper, which could be investigated in future research, is to analyze benchmarked board categories to see if they help explain differences in comparative long-term market performances by many companies since companies and their markets are diverse.

scholarly journals Editorial note: Theory and practices of the corporate board in the international context

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Montserrat Manzaneque-Lizano
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Corporate Board ◽  
International Context ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Governance Practices

Nowadays, literature and practitioners, from a theoretical and empirical focus, agree that corporate governance efficiency is essential to achieve the long-term sustainability of firms and institutions. This issue of the journal marks another step in this area, providing an interdisciplinary dialogue on diversity in corporate governance practices.

scholarly journals Diversity in the board of directors and good governance practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Álvaro Melón-Izco ◽  
Francisco J. Ruiz-Cabestre ◽  
M. Carmen Ruiz-Olalla
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Board Diversity ◽  
Corporate Governance Mechanisms ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
The Board Of Directors

Motivated by the debate on the adequacy of the composition of boards of directors, we examine the effect that board diversity has on corporate governance performance in Spain, analysing gender diversity, diversity of director types and tenure diversity. The findings reveal that diverse boards of directors have a positive influence on good governance practices,improving the efficiency of corporate governance mechanisms. These results could be interesting for practitioners and regulators.

scholarly journals Corporate Board of Directors’ Attributes and Audit Fees

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-172
Author(s):  
Wasiu Abiodun Sanyaolu ◽  
Abiola Mukaila Tonade ◽  
Babatunde Titus Adejumo
Keyword(s):  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Audit Fees ◽  
Corporate Boards ◽  
Method Of Moment ◽  
Corporate Board ◽  
External Audit ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Governance Practices

Abstract This study examines the effect of corporate board of directors’ attributes on audit fees for Nigerian listed Deposit Money Banks (DBMS). The study adopts an ex post facto research design and uses data on 10 deposit money banks sampled via purposive sampling technique using data spanning from 2012 to 2018. Results based on Generalized Method of Moment show that corporate board of directors’ proxies do not significantly influence audit fees of Nigerian deposit money banks. However, firm size and profitability are found to affect external audit fee significantly. The study therefore concludes that corporate boards of directors’ attributes do not individually significantly affect audit fees in Nigerian listed Deposit Money Banks. Arising from the findings, it is recommended that corporate governance practices should be strengthened so as to aid external audit.

scholarly journals Editorial: Strategy development for uncertain times

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Pedro B. Água
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Ethical Leadership ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Corporate Board ◽  
Strategy Formulation ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Fit For Purpose

Corporate strategy is considered a central driver of a firm’s long-term orientation, a key influencer in corporate performance, and nowadays being impacted by an increasing business endeavour where complexity is the new normal. Corporate governance suggests that boards of directors have the duty to govern the firms they are responsible for, and doing so in a sustainable way. Hence, boards are supposed to make relevant decisions on corporate strategy. How is, however, strategy translated into the board agenda? Corporate governance faces a new set of challenges as a great deal of countries are progressively getting out of the pandemic constraints that have slowed economic performance for most businesses. The way strategies will be developed will dictate their fit for purpose. Such strategies will have to cope with increasing sustainability goals; provide a competitive edge against competitors’ technological edges and innovation in general. Such strategies will have to deal with innovative usages of IT and potential business disruptions that may be triggered by digital transformation. All such paradigm changes will demand more effort from boards, and force them to dive into unusual fields, such as learning about complexity and systems thinking. As important as strategy formulation is ethical leadership for strategy deployment and sustainability. Overall, such topics are placed high on boards agendas and are addressed in the current issue of Corporate Board: Role, Duties and Composition.

scholarly journals Corporate governance under conditions of crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
pp. 01039
Author(s):  
Aybika Beksultanova ◽  
Andrey Seleznev ◽  
Saida Shardan
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Strategic Context

The study investigates the consequences of the COVID-19 virus pandemic on the activities of the board of directors, corporate governance practices and the strategic context of companies’ activities. The purpose of the study - assess the readiness (after the fact) of the boards of directors to act in a crisis situation, the specifics of the practice of the boards of directors in the new realities, expectations of the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on corporate governance practices and the strategic context of the company’s activities. The article outlines some issues that are worth considering and that may be useful to the company’s management in terms of crisis management. A set of proposals has been formed to reduce the negative effects associated with the consequences of the pandemic for corporate governance, as well as ideas and practical proposals that can help companies reduce the costs of going through the current crisis.

The Corporate Governance of Environmental Sustainability: A Review and Proposal for More Integrated Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 014920632199121
Author(s):  
Ruth V. Aguilera ◽  
J. Alberto Aragón-Correa ◽  
Valentina Marano ◽  
Peter A. Tashman
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Global Dimension ◽  
Top Management Teams ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Environmental Initiatives ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Integrated Research ◽  
Systematic Understanding

As corporations’ environmental impact comes under greater scrutiny by global financial, regulatory, and societal stakeholders, management scholars have increasingly focused on the role of corporate governance as a tool for driving environmental initiatives. Still, we lack a comprehensive and systematic understanding of this emergent body of inquiry and a holistic agenda for future research. To address this gap, our integrative framework relates the key corporate governance actors to environmental sustainability outcomes from the extant literature and highlights its main methodological approaches and theoretical arguments. Our framework provides a critical analysis of what we know and points to the knowledge gaps around owners, boards of directors, CEOs, top management teams, and employees as corporate governance actors. We then highlight limitations in the existing literature as significant opportunities for further research to resolve its ambiguous conceptualizations of environmental sustainability constructs, various methodological and theoretical challenges, incomplete engagement with the global dimension of environmental sustainability, and limited analysis of how corporate governance actors may interact to shape environmental sustainability outcomes. We conclude by proposing novel approaches for addressing these issues, which we believe could generate a better way forward on studying the corporate governance of environmental sustainability.

Insider Trading Laws and Corporate Governance Impact on Investment Decision

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-137
Author(s):  
Sadaf Khan ◽  
Ubaid Ur Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Insider Trading ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Good Corporate Governance ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

This research aims to analyze the impact of insider trading laws and corporate governance on investment decisions. For this purpose, the data of 400 potential and actual investors employed who provided their feedback on a structured questionnaire. When the data is collected, it was cleaned. The normality of data and reliability of items were also checked and within limits. Simple Regression was applied to test hypotheses. It was concluded that the perception of insider trading laws and corporate governance have a positive impact on investment decisions. The study has wide implications and the government and corporation both can be beneficial from its insight and findings, and exercise good corporate governance practices and follow stringent insider trading laws. The study also paves the way for future research.

scholarly journals Board of directors, performance and firm value in Brazilian listed state-owned enterprises

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Carolina Coletta ◽  
Roberto Arruda de Souza Lima
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Firm Value ◽  
Board Structure ◽  
Agency Conflicts ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Structure Index ◽  
Corporate Governance Practice

<p>This paper investigates the relationship between the board of directors' structure and firm performance and the value of Brazilian listed state-owned enterprises (SOEs), from 2002 to 2017, totaling 327 observations using an unbalanced panel data with fixed and random effects regressions. The evolution of corporate governance practices adopted by the boards is presented for this period, using a Board Structure Index (BSI). The results indicate a significant positive relation between the board's structure and firm performance, measured by ROE and ROA, and firm value, measured by Tobin's <em>q</em>. These findings are consistent with corporate governance literature, in the sense that the board's role of monitoring management reduces agency conflicts. The results also show an improvement in adopting corporate governance practice on Brazilian SOEs' boards over the last decade.</p>

scholarly journals The Composition Of Corporate Boards Of Directors: Does Industry Matter?

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Marlin ◽  
Scott W. Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Retail Trade ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Corporate Boards ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Corporate Board ◽  
Publicly Traded ◽  
Trade Finance ◽  
Board Characteristics ◽  
Publicly Traded Firms

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-add-space: auto;" class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The purpose of this study is to identify and examine differences in corporate board characteristics across four industries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using a sample of 2592 US publicly traded firms, eleven board characteristics were identified and then examined across manufacturing, retail trade, finance/insurance, and services industries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our analyses revealed significant differences in each of the eleven board characteristics examined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Implications and areas for future research are discussed.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>

scholarly journals Implementing the board of directors’ mechanism – An empirical study of the listed firms in Libya

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Atkins ◽  
Mohamed Zakari ◽  
Ismail Elshahoubi
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Corporate Boards ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Executive Managers

This paper aims to investigate the extent to which board of directors’ mechanism is implemented in Libyan listed companies. This includes a consideration of composition, duties and responsibilities of the board directors. This study employed a questionnaire survey to collect required data from four key stakeholder groups: Boards of Directors (BD), Executive Managers (EM), Regulators and External Auditors (RE) and Other Stakeholders (OS). The results of this study provided evidence that Libyan listed companies generally comply with the Libyan Corporate Governance Code (LCGC) requirements regarding the board composition: the findings assert that most boards have between three and eleven members, the majority of whom are non-executives and at least two or one-third of whom (whichever is greater) are independent. Moreover, the results indicate that general assemblies in Libyan listed companies are practically committed to the LCGC’s requirements regarding the appointment of board members and their length of tenure. The findings provide evidence that boards in Libyan listed companies are carrying out their duties and responsibilities in accordance with internal regulations and laws, as well as the stipulations of the LCGC (2007). Furthermore, the stakeholder groups were broadly satisfied that board members are devoting sufficient time and effort to discharge these duties and responsibilities properly. This study helps to enrich our understanding and knowledge of the current practice of corporate boards as a significant mechanism of corporate governance (CG) by being the first to address the board of directors’ mechanism in Libyan listed companies.

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