Corporate boards are responsible for the governance of firms. The board’s responsibilities include setting the strategic aims of the firms, providing the necessary leadership, supervising management, and reporting to shareholders. Given that the overall goal is to maximise firm value, this...

The main purpose of this article is to present a novel approach for linking the principles of management education with knowledge exchange activities to take the UN sustainability agenda forward. In this study, we present a knowledge exchange pilot project that was organised and implemented at a...

Purpose: This study aims to explore the relationship between board governance structure and firm risk. In particular, this study develops a “governance index” based on four aspects of the board: board composition, board leadership structure, board member characteristics and board processes,...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the board attributes that significantly increase firm risk. The study aims to find whether board size, percentage of non-executive directors, women on the board, a powerful chief executive officer, equity ownership amongst executive board...

Using audit quality as our core focus, we take a fresh look at the tradability and standby status in rights offerings, and the market reaction during the subscription period in the US market. We find that firms with high audit quality are more likely to choose tradable or full standby rights...