This study examines the impact of information environment in capital markets on a firm’s stakeholder paradigm. We integrate research on time horizons with stakeholder theory to unravel both the choice between shareholder diagram and stakeholder diagram, and the choice between generic and...

Venture capital funds have been facing increasing regulatory scrutiny since the 2007 financial crisis, particularly with respect to calls for increased disclosure requirements. In this paper we examine the effect of more stringent securities regulation on the supply and performance of venture...

Venture capital funds (as well as private equity funds and hedge funds) in many countries around the world are facing increasing regulatory scrutiny since the 2007 financial crisis, particularly in respect of calls for increased disclosure requirements. In this paper, we examine whether more...

The nominee approach to equity crowdfunding pools all crowd investors into one (nominee) account where typically the platform acts as the legal owner but the crowd retains beneficial ownership. The platform plays an active digital corporate governance role that simultaneously enfranchises crowd...

We examine the influence of auditors on mitigating corporate fraud in China, which is known to have weak legal enforcement, weak investor protection along with tight control of the media and labour unions. We find that firms with executives that have lower integrity, indicated by a greater...

We examine the influence of auditors on corporate fraud in China. We find lower executive integrity firms are associated with higher propensity of regulatory enforcement actions against corporate fraud in the subsequent year. We then show that this effect is moderated by the issuance of modified...

We consider whether traders are more likely to commit securities violations when trading at home, a new form of working induced by the Covid pandemic. We examine data pre- and post-Covid, during which some traders were unexpectedly forced to work at home. The data indicate the presence of both a...