This short paper applies the ‘pitching research' template developed by Faff (2015) to an academic research topic in corporate governance of Australian credit unions, from an accounting discipline perspective. The pitch template identifies the core elements that form the framework of any...

This study refers to the study of Minton et al. (2014) by contributing to the discussion whether their finding that financial experts on the board promote pro-cyclical bank performance arises due to their shareholder-proximity or rather due to their risk-taking attitude, Minton et al. (2014) use...

As the governance of financial institutions is becoming an important issue, there are many papers empirically investigating the governance issues of banks, which are stock companies. However, cooperative structured financial institutions (co-ops), which have a unique governance structure...