The purpose of the present paper is to help bring some advances in the characterization of the emerging stakeholder model of corporate governance. This shall be achieved by analyzing CSR function at board level, board diversity and stakeholder engagement and by examining its relationship with financial performance. Based on an empirical study of an international sample of large companies, we fo...

Acknowledgements I would like to thank the University of Richmond and the Undergraduate Research Committee for its generous funding and support for my research, and for my advisers Dr. Jennifer Erkulwater and Dr. Jan French who have been invaluable during the research and writing of this paper. Most importantly, I would like to thank the people of Richmond who have had a profound impact on me d...

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of corporate governance (CG), corporate social responsibility (CSR) and their interactive effect on the value of companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. For this purpose, the data of 194 companies listed on this stock exchange, which was selected using a systematic elimination method, from 2011-2017 were collected and analyzed using ...

Available online 13 November 2014 This study examines the relationship between family firms and earnings management by considering the influence of board independence. Based on a sample of 379 listed high-technology firms over 7 years in Taiwan, we find that family firms are positively related to earnings management. Further, we find two interaction effects: (1) the proportion of independent di...

Received: 25 April 2006 Revised: 30 July 2008 Accepted: 6 August 2008 Online publication date: 12 March 2009 Abstract The last decade of work in corporate governance has shown that weak legal institutions at the country level hinder firms in emerging economies from accessing finance and technology affordably. To attract outside resources, these firms must often use external commitments for repa...

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