Corporate Governance - Topics

02_00 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE - GENERAL TRACK

This is a general corporate governance track within the Corporate Governance SIG which invites contributions from all areas related to corporate governance that are not explicitly covered by other tracks within the SIG. We welcome studies which are interested in the antecedents leading to particular forms or processes of governance as well as in its consequences. Papers adopting different theoretical lenses, using different research methods, analysing different types of companies and exploring governance in different countries are strongly encouraged. Indicative titles within this track are:

• Accountability Issues.
• Social and Financial Performance.
• Governance and Sustainability.
• Codes, Rules, Processes, Policies and Institutions Related to the Administration of the Corporations.
• Ownership Structure of Corporations.
• Corporations and Society.
• Governance and Strategy.
• Capital Markets.
• Institutional Investors.
• Private Equity.
• Methods for Studying Boards and Governance.
• Informal governance mechanisms.

Chairs: Silke Machold (University of Wolverhampton) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Alessandro Zattoni (Parthenope University & Strategic and Entrepreneurial Department) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Andriy Boytsun (University of Antwerp) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Keywords: Accountability; Codes; Ownership structure; Informal governance.

 

SIG STANDING

ST_02_01 TOP MANAGEMENT TEAMS & BUSINESS ELITES

Business elites and top management teams (TMTs) are among the most influential actors at both firm and society level. Previous research has consistently tried to establish relationships between these corporate actors and firm-level outcomes, inspired by the upper-echelon theory (Hambrick and Mason, 1984). At the heart of this research is the extent to which top managers exert an influence on firm outcomes, and which of the leaders’ characteristics are the most promising to predict this influence. We seek to encourage discussions regarding the antecedents, processes, intervening mechanisms and consequences of the formation, composition, and behaviour of TMTs and business elites.

Proponent Buyl Tine (University of Antwerp) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Nielsen Sabina (Copenhagen Business School) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Keywords: Top Management Team; Business Elites; Upper Echelons; Chief Executive Officer.

ST_02_02 WOMEN DIRECTORS ON CORPORATE BOARDS

The issue of Women Directors on Corporate Boards, is gaining momentum in many European countries. Academic debate on the strategic importance of women corporate directors is widely recognized and still open. Norway had held for some time a leading role in the process of getting women onto boards. Other countries such as France, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain have recently introduced quota laws. In Germany, a vivid discussion on appropriate measures to involve more women on boards and to increase diversity in general has been developed.

Our contribution could be to analyse antecedents, processes, dynamics, and consequences/outcomes of the growing presence of women on boards on three levels: Individual, Organizational, and Societal.

Proponents: Mariateresa Torchia (Witten/Herdecke University) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Celia De Anca (IE Business School, Spain) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Patricia Gabaldon (IE Business School, Spain) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Katrin Hansen (Westfälische Hochschule, University of Applied Sciences) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Keywords: Women Directors; Board Diversity; Corporate Governance.

ST_02 _03 BOARD EFFECTIVENESS

Over the last decades, the role of boards of directors and their influence on firm behaviour and firm outcome have been topics of the debate. Research into board effectiveness may now be categorized under three streams: (1) economics/law approaches to board effectiveness, focusing on structures and incentives; (2) sociology/actual board behaviour approaches, focusing on board processes; and (3) social psychology approaches, focusing on cognition. Research spans a wide variety of units of analysis (firm, team, director) as well as methodologies (survey, archival, observational). Indeed, for the purpose of this topic, the effectiveness of boards is an important and growing research stream.

Proponents: Gerwin Van der Laan (Tilburg University) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Jonas Gabrielsson (Lund University) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Hans Van Ees (University of Groningen) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Saraï Sapulete (Tilburg University) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Keywords: Boards of directors; Board effectiveness; Interactions; Processes; Behavioural perspectives on boards.