Purpose – The literature on corporate governance has experienced an explosive growth in the past decade and presented some new trends. One purpose of this paper is to make an exploratory survey of this. Since China is a typically emerging and transition economy, another purpose of this paper...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the process of internationalization and its associated risk of marginalization for the emerging Chinese multinationals; also to examine typical strategies emerging Chinese multinationals employ to deal with this challenge in order to provide...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine governance and earnings management implications of the delisting regulation in China, which designates firms with two consecutive losses as Special Treatment (ST) firms and delists such firms, should two more years of consecutive losses occur....

Purpose – This paper makes the first attempt to provide a new analytical framework for research on the evolution of China's corporate governance models. The purpose of this paper is to investigate developmental corporate governance mechanisms in China the over past decades from a synthetic and...

Purpose As an important participant in capital market, institutional investors play a principal role in improving corporate governance. Most existing studies have focused on institutional ownership and its economic consequences. Nevertheless, they have not provided sufficient insight on the...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the effectiveness of independent directors based on the perspective of strategic control. Design/methodology/approach – This is an empirical study carried out between 2007 and 2012 based on a sample of Chinese A-share-listed companies. Findings – The...

Purpose – This study investigates the determinants of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) cash compensation in relation to corporate governance and performance in China's listed firms. This article also aims at analyzing gender earning differentials among CEOs. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the corporate governance information disclosed by Spanish listed companies on the internet, with the objective of assessing the extent and the influence of several corporate characteristics on the level of information voluntarily disclosed....

Purpose – This research aims to compare website-based investor relations (WIR) in developed and developing economies, represented by the US, UK, Hong Kong and mainland China. Design/methodology/approach – A WIR level evaluation index consisting of 82 items was constructed, based on website...