Conference Agenda

The Role of Passive Ownership in the Era of Say-on-Pay

Brian Kim¹, Kiseo Chung²

¹Baylor University, United States of America; ²Texas Tech University, United States of America;

Shareholder-connected Director Appointments: Evidence from Common Ownership

Yang Cao

Grenoble Ecole de Management, France;

Outside employment opportunities and tournament incentives

Yue Feng, Amedeo De Cesari, Konstantinos Stathopoulos

University of Manchester, United Kingdom;

The Effect of Bank Supervision on Bank Boards

Carlo Chiarella, Pedro Jesús Cuadros-Solas, Ludovico Rossi

CUNEF Universidad, Spain;

Do Auditors Charge Clients with Blockchain Investments Higher Audit Fees?

Jean Jinghan Chen¹, Lingyu Huang², Jason Xiao²

¹University of Kent, United Kingdom; ²University of Macao;

Through the Auditor's Lens: Are Antitakeover Provisions a Corporate Governance Asset or Liability?

Kurt Desender, Mónica López-Puertas Lamy

Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain;

The Monitoring Versus Attention Effects of Media Coverage On Audit Fees

Stephen Gong¹, Jean Chen², Fai Lim Loi³

¹Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China, People's Republic of; ²University of Kent, UK; ³Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of;

Family Ownership and Carbon Emissions

Marcin Borsuk¹, Nicolas Eugster², Paul-Olivier Klein³, Oskar Kowalewski⁴

¹Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Science; ²University of Queensland, Australia; ³University of Lyon, France; ⁴IESEG School of Management, France;

Founding Family Firms and Labor Cost Stickiness

Marc Steffen Rapp, Carsten Gnoth, Iuliia Udoieva

Philipps-Universität Marburg, School of Business & Economics, Germany;

The Role of Blockholders in Top Management Team Reconfiguration

Nikolaos Kavadis¹, Alejandro Escribá-Esteve², José Fernando López-Muñoz³

¹Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; ²University of Valencia, Spain; ³University Jaume I, Spain;

Family ownership and the returns on IT investment deviations in Spanish unlisted firms: An institutional legitimacy challenge

Nestor U. Salcedo^1,2, Miguel García-Cestona¹

¹Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; ²ESAN Graduate School of Business;

Gender Diversity Reforms and Corporate Risk-taking: The Role of Family Business Prevalence

Jannine Poletti-Hughes, Dilrukshi Dimungu-Hegawe, Yang Zhao

University of Liverpool, United Kingdom;

“KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY”: THE IMPACT OF NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND FAMILY BUSINESS GROUPS ON FIRM-LEVEL DISCLOSURE IN THE CARIBBEAN TAX HAVENS

Bruce Hearn¹, Igor Filatotchev²

¹University of Southampton; ²Kings College London;

Changes to Accounting Policies, Financial Reporting Quality and Guaranteed Loans during the Covid-19 Crisis

Bruno Buchetti¹, Mircea Epure^2,3,4, Amedeo Pugliese¹

¹University of Padova, Italy; ²Pompeu Fabra University, Spain; ³Barcelona School of Economics; ⁴UPF-Barcelona School of Management;

ESG contracting and imitation behavior: Does the channel via which imitation arises matter?

Charlotte Antoons¹, Eddy Cardinaels², Liesbeth Bruynseels³

¹Erasmus University Rotterdam; ²Tilburg University; ³KU Leuven;

Aligning Incentives for a Sustainable Future: Exploring the Link Between Outside Director Incentive Compensation and Firm CSR Performance

Mieke Dingenen, Ann Gaeremynck, Dieter Smeulders

KU Leuven, Belgium;

Does Masculinity Pay? How Executives' Masculinity (vs. Femininity) and Gender Affect Compensation

Seung-Hwan Jeong¹, Ilaria Orlandi², Yusen Xia³, Alireza Aghasi⁴

¹University of Georgia; ²Copenhagen Business School; ³Georgia State University; ⁴Oregon State University;

Speaking fast and slow: Examining CEOs’ verbal speech rate

Joris Berns

Tilburg University, Netherlands, The;

In pursuit of “good governance”: Divergences among corporate sustainability strategy and local stakeholders’ interests

Maria Vasileva Ilieva¹, Miguel Ignacio Córdova Espinoza², Joan Lilian Ogendo³, Maria Alejandra Gonzalez Perez⁴

¹University of Leeds, United Kingdom; ²Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Peru; ³Technical University of Kenya, Kenya; ⁴Universidad EAFIT, Colombia;

Green innovation spillover along global supply chain

Yizhe Dong, Yaorong Liu

University of Edinburgh Business School, United Kingdom;

ESG and Directors’ Duties: Defining the “Interests of the Company”

Luh Luh Lan, Walter Wan

National University of Singapore, Singapore;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS, SUSTAINABILITY INDICES AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: AN ANALYSIS OF SPANISH LISTED COMPANIES

Irma Martínez García, Silvia Gómez Ansón

Universidad de Oviedo, Spain;

Board Gender Diversity Reform and Corporate Carbon Emissions

Raul Barroso^1,2,3, Tinghua Duan^1,2,3, Siyue Guo¹, Oskar Kowalewski^1,2,3

¹IESEG School of Management, France; ²Univ. Lille, UMR 9221 - LEM - Lille Économie Management, F-59000 Lille, France; ³CNRS, UMR 9221 - LEM - Lille Économie Management, F-59000 Lille, France;

The role of endogeneity in board gender diversity and cor-porate social performance relationship: Evidence from a control function method

Rey Dang¹, L’Hocine Houanti², Jean-Michel Sahut³, Michel Simioni⁴

¹Istect Business School - Paris, France; ²EM Normandie Business School & Métis Lab, France; ³INRAE, MOISA, University of Montpellier & Toulouse School of Economics, University of Toulouse, France; ⁴IDRAC Business School, Lyon, France;

The Green Innovation Premium: Evidence from U.S. Patents and the Stock Market

Markus Leippold^1,2, Tingyu Yu¹

¹The University of Zurich, Switzerland; ²Swiss Finance Institute (SFI);

Board blind spots: Causes, contingencies, consequences, and (possible) cures

Daniel Zyung

Southern Methodist University, United States of America;

Foundation Ownership and Creditor Governance: Evidence from Publicly Listed Companies.

Caglar Kaya

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark;

Executive Turnover in Family Firms: The Effects of Board Independence and Industry Competition

Fernando Muñoz-Bullon¹, Maria J. Sanchez-Bueno¹, Mathew Hughes²

¹Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; ²University of Leicester;

Altruism or Self-Interest? ESG and Participation in Employee Share Plans

Maxime Bonelli¹, Marie Briere², Francois Derrien¹

¹HEC Paris; ²Amundi;

Employee Ownership and Governance: A Review and Research Agenda

Elisa Del Sordo, Alessandro Zattoni

LUISS University, Italy;

The better part of valor? A meta-analytic test of managerial discretion theory

Matthew Farrell¹, Chris H. Willis², Ryan Klinger², Nathapon Siangchokyoo²

¹Austin Peay State University; ²Old Dominion University;

Difference-in-Differences in Strategic Leadership Research: An Integrative Multidisciplinary Review

Sibel Ozgen, Justine Hervé

Stevens Institute of Technology, United States of America;

THE BOARD STRUCTURE OF AFFILIATES IN BUSINESS GROUPS

Bartolome Pascual-Fuster¹, Paula M Infantes², Ryan Federo¹

¹Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain; ²Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain;

BOARDS AND EMERGING MARKETS: A QUALITATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Jose Luis Rivas¹, Kevin Corley²

¹ITAM, Mexico; ²Imperial College, UK;

Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling: How Female Executive Director Support Under Female CEOs Can Enhance Women’s Progress in Leadership Positions

Katarzyna Burzynska, Gabriela Contreras

Radboud University, Netherlands, The;

Women who LinkedIn: The Gender Gap in Online Executive Networking

Gabriela Contreras¹, Ruth Mateos de Cabo², Ricardo Gimeno³

¹Radboud University, Netherlands, The; ²Universidad CEU San Pablo; ³Banco de España;

The Networking Myth and its Impact on Women’s Career Advancement

Gabriela Contreras¹, Miryam Martínez-Martínez², Susana González-Pérez², Ruth Mateos de Cabo², Ricardo Gimeno³

¹Radboud University; ²Universidad CEU San Pablo, Spain; ³Banco de España;

Corporate Governance Predicting Bankruptcy: Analysis and Application on Adani Group Companies

Sunaina Kanojia¹, Shasta Gupta², Jai Prakash Sharma³

¹Department of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India; ²Sri Aurobindo College, Univ of Delhi; ³Global Research Foundation for Corporate Governance;

Who is a Vigilant Watchdog? A Meta-Analysis of External Corporate Governance and Corporate Misconduct

Max Braun¹, Simone Eulitz²

¹Freie Universität Berlin; ²Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München;

Opportunistic or Trustworthy Owners? Evidence from the Dividend Policy

Laura Rondi

Politecnico di Torino, Italy;

Corporate scandals and occupational frauds: The nexus

Senevirathne Mudiyanselage Anuruddika Gayathrie Senevirathne

University of Colombo, Sri Lanka;

Improving Bargaining Power or Putting Safety First? Ownership Structure and the Effect of Labor Market Regulation on Leverage

Marina Kononova, Marc Steffen Rapp, Iuliia Udoieva

Philipps-Universität Marburg, School of Business & Economics, Germany;

Repurposing the Heart of State-Owned Enterprises towards the Public Purpose: The Role of Non-Financial Reporting and Public Corporate Governance Codes and Research Agenda

Ulf Papenfuß, Christian A. Schmidt

Zeppelin University, Germany;

Do Politically Connected Directors Affect Family Firms' CSR Performance? Exploring the Moderating Role of Family Influence on Ownership and Board

Nhat Minh Tran^1,2

¹LaRGE, EM Strasbourg Business School, Université de Strasbourg, France; ²Faculty of Business and Management, National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam;

THE TIES THAT BIND OR THOSE THAT TEAR US APART? CO-CEO CONSTELLATIONS AND ESG PERFORMANCE IN FAMILY FIRMS

Yuliya Ponomareva¹, Francesco Paolone², Domenico Rocco Cambrea³, Marc Goergen⁴

¹Autonomous University of Barcelona; ²Universitas Mercatorum; ³Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia; ⁴IE Business School;

Drivers of Corporate Governance Convergence: The Role of Outside Directors and Board Attributes

Yujia Chen, Kurt Desender

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain;

Alternate members of boards of directors in Colombia: An exploratory view

Diógenes Lagos, Gonzalo Gomez-Betancourt

Legacy & Management Consulting Group SAS, Colombia;

How Well Do Shareholders Know Their Directors? An Examination of the Relationship Between Directors’ Education and Experience and Shareholder Votes on Director Appointments

Siddharth M. Purohit¹, Naman Desai², Birendra Mishra²

¹University College Dublin, Ireland; ²University of California, Riverside;

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Meta-Analyzing Forbes and Milliken’s Board Process Framework and a New Perspective

Fabian K. Ahrens^1,2, Dennis B. Veltrop², Laetitia B. Mulder², Chuk Yan E. Wong², Niels Hermes², Floor Rink²

¹Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; ²University of Groningen, Netherlands;

Sovereign Wealth Fund ownership and market entry in Emerging markets: Evidence from Scandinavian firms

Rahul Anand, Niklas Baltsen, Frederik Madsen

Aarhus BSS, Denmark;

LARGE SHAREHOLDER DIVERSIFICATION AND CORPORATE CASH HOLDING

Roberto Mura

University of Manchester, United Kingdom;

Institutional investor influence on executive-to-worker pay dispersion after the financial crisis

Julie Chen¹, Niels Hermes², Reggy Hooghiemstra²

¹Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University; ²University of Groningen, Netherlands, The;

Incentivising CSR washing? – The influence of CSR based executive compensation on CSR washing activities and the moderating effect of board governance

Sophia Schwoy, Martin Thomsen, Andreas Dutzi

University of Siegen, Germany;

Antecedents of CSR engagement in firms of emerging economies: Evidence from India

Sujata Banerjee¹, Alessandro Zattoni²

¹Techno India University, West Bengal, India; ²LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy;

The Impact of Corporate Environmental Responsibility on Corporate Financial Performance: The Moderating Role of R&D in financial distress

Martin Osei, Josep A. Tribo

Steven Institute of Technology, United States of America;

Corporate Governance and Greenwashing

Maria Fotaki^1,2, Erifili-Christina Chatzopoulou¹, Giorgos Papagiannakis³, Stelios Zyglidopoulos⁴

¹Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece, ie University, Spain; ²ie University, Spain; ³University of Peloponnese, Greece; ⁴Sprott School of Business, Carleton University Ottawa, Canada;

Paying Tax According to Conscience or the Law? The Role of CEO Conscientiousness in Corporate Tax Avoidance

Sebastian Firk¹, Jan C. Hennig¹, Lisa Hillmann²

¹University of Groningen, Netherlands, The; ²WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.;

Rounding of Internal Performance Targets: Determinants and Implications

Ying Gan, Xiaoxu Ling, Ivy Zhang, Yong Zhang

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China);

CEO age, financial reporting quality, and the role of clawback provisions

Justin G. Davis¹, Miguel García-Cestona²

¹Washington and Lee University, United States of America; ²Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain;

Do Founders Learn from the Stock Market?

Pil-Seng Lee¹, Vikram Nanda²

¹Baylor University, United States of America; ²University of Texas at Dallas, United States of America;

With a Little Help from my Similar Others: An Institutional Exploration of Board and CEO Gender Diversity

Krista Lewellyn¹, Maureen Muller-Kahle²

¹Florida Southern College, United States of America; ²Penn State York;

Complementary and Substitution Effects: The Interrelatedness of Institutionalized Elements of the Governance Bundle in U.S. Capital Markets

Guilhem Bascle

Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium;

Insider Trading by Connected Directors During Trading Bans

Marc Goergen¹, Luc Renneboog², Yang Zhao³

¹IE Business School; ²Tilburg University; ³University of Liverpool, United Kingdom;

Offshore and Onboard: Secret Offshore Companies and Director Career Outcomes

Ronald Masulis², Leonid Pugachev³, Andrea Schertler¹

¹University of Graz, Austria; ²University of New South Wales, Australia; ³Rochester Institute of Technology, USA;

Once Symbolic, Always Symbolic? Examining the Changing Role of Chief Diversity Officers Before and After George Floyd's Death

Seok-Hyun {Stephen} Hwang, Yoon Hoo Kim

Hong Kong Baptist University;

Shareholder approval of schemes of arrangement: Evidence from UK public takeovers

Yerzhan Tokbolat

Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom;

Climate Change Exposure and Firm Cash Holdings

Yuna Heo

University of Basel, Switzerland;

Climate Change, Adaptation Policy, and Corporate Investment Decisions

Yuna Heo

University of Basel, Switzerland;

Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Switching on Good Corporate Governance

Panagiotis Andreou², Neil Michael Kellard¹

¹University of Essex, United Kingdom; ²Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus;

A Machine Learning-based Anatomy of Firm-level Climate Change Exposure

Weiwei Hu¹, Kai Li¹, Tingyu Yu²

¹Peking University HSBC Business School; ²The University of Zurich, Switzerland;

Chairwoman and openness to gender diversity: A view beyond the number of women on boards

Sara De Masi¹, Agnieszka Słomka-Gołębiowska², Simona Zambelli¹, Andrea Paci¹

¹University of Florence, Italy; ²Warsaw School of Economics, Poland;

Do Gender Differences Affect Shareholders’ Evaluation of Director Busyness?

Toru Yoshikawa¹, Asli Colpan², Daisuke Uchida³

¹Waseda University, Japan; ²Kyoto University, Japan; ³Keio University, Japan;

Private equity talent and diversity: do they matter?

Ranko Jelic¹, Xinyu Yu², Dan Zhou³

¹University of Sussex - Business School, United Kingdom; ²Surrey Business School - University of Surrey, United Kingdom; ³Henley Business School - University of Reading, United Kingdom;

Towards a configurational theory of director influence within the board.

Michelle Weck¹, Dennis Veltrop², Ryan Krause³, Jana Oehmichen¹, Floor Rink²

¹University of Mainz; ²University of Groningen; ³Neeley School of Business;

FROM AMBIVALENCE TO STEWARDSHIP COMMITMENT – TOWARD A BEHAVIORAL MODEL OF STEWARDSHIP GOVERNANCE

Hans van Ees¹, Christina Hoon², Constantin Zeif², Anne Sanders²

¹university of groningen, Netherlands, The; ²Bielefeld University, Germany;

Director Exits after Power Struggles with the CEO

Jill Ann Brown¹, Andrew Ward², Punit Arora³, Cynthia Clark⁴

¹Bentley University, United States of America; ²Lehigh University; ³City College of New York; ⁴Bentley University;

POWER AT THE TOP: AN INTEGRATIVE REVIEW OF CEO POWER

Sibel Ozgen¹, Ann Mooney¹, Yuyang Zhou²

¹Stevens Institute of Technology, United States of America; ²Bentley University;

The leadership role of the Chair: facilitating information processing

Louise Tilbury, Ruth Sealy

University of Exeter, United Kingdom;

CEO Dismissal, Board Ideology and CEO Successor Selection as Board Risk-Taking

Shara Leann Darr, Mirko Benischke

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, The;

Reshaping the Top Team: How Do CEO Successors Change the TMT over time?

KATRINA NELSON, PATRICIA KLARNER, CHRISTIAN HAAS

WU Vienna University of Economics and Business;

Ownership matters! The benefits of appointing the predecessor CEO as board chair in family firms

Christine Scheef, Thomas Zellweger

University of St.Gallen, Switzerland;

A Tale of Two Markets: Unveiling the Big Three's Influence on CSR in Domestic and Foreign Markets

Kurt Desender, Mónica López-Puertas Lamy

Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain;

IS THE STATE A SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE SHAREHOLDER? State-Owned Enterprises, Political Ideology and Corporate Social Performance

Leonardo Henrique Lima de Pilla^1,2, Alketa Peci¹, Rodrigo de Oliveira Leite³

¹Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV/EBAPE); ²Serzedello Corrêa Institute, School of Government of the Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts (TCU/ISC); ³COPPEAD Graduate School of Business of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPEAD/UFRJ);

Owners as Strategists: Mapping the current state and future directions

Sebastian Sigg

University of St. Gallen, Switzerland;

Sustainable corporate governance and environmental performance across countries: A configurational perspective

Reggy Hooghiemstra¹, Andrea Melis², Luigi Rombi²

¹University of Groningen,; ²University of Cagliari;

Corporate Leaders and Sustainable Development Goals: The Effect of Directors' Social Class, Values, and Political Leaning

Lisanne Veter¹, Commandeur Harry¹, Volberda Henk², Jatinder Sidhu³

¹Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands; ²University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; ³Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, United Kingdom;

EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEGLOBALIZATION AND CORPORATE NETWORK STRUCTURE: A CONFIGURATIONAL ANALYSIS WITH A HISTORICAL LENS

Paula Margaretic¹, Erica Salvaj², Julian Diaz³

¹University of Adolfo Ibañez, Chile; ²Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile; ³Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile;

Revitalizing Traditional Values and Sustainability: Impact of Japan's 2021 Corporate Governance Code Amendments

Saori Sugeno

University of Surrey, United Kingdom;

INTERLOCKING DIRECTORATES AND FAMILY FIRM PERFORMANCE: AN EMERGING MARKETS PERSPECTIVE

Karen Watkins-Fassler¹, Lázaro Rodríguez-Ariza², Virginia Fernández-Pérez², Guadalupe del Carmen Briano-Turrent³

¹Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Spain; ²Universidad de Granada; ³Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí;

Worker Representation and Job Quality

Casper Larsen¹, Esther Chevrot-Bianco², Guido Friebel²

¹Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; ²Goethe University Frankfurt;

Shared Board Directors and the Cost of Bank Debt

Thomas Poulsen, Caglar Kaya, Niels Westergaard-Nielsen

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark;

Voiceless but still influential shareholders? The case of a responsible investors' coalition engagement with TotalEnergies in 2020-2022

Nicolas Mottis, Léo Denis

CRG-i3, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Institut Polytechnique de Paris;

Organizational Consciousness and Stakeholder Engagement: Unraveling the Benefits of Organizational Awareness Towards Multiple Stakeholders

Pero Paro¹, Luiz Ricardo Kabbach de Castro², Raj Sisodia³, Mateus Gerolamo⁴

¹Humanizadas; ²Universidad de Navarra, Spain; ³Tecnológico de Monterrey; ⁴Universidade de São Paulo;

Proxy statements as a shareholders’ governance mechanism: an asset or a liability to create (sustainable) firm value?

Jasmijn Luca P Vandenberk, Ann Gaeremynck, Steven Vanhaverbeke

KU Leuven, Belgium;

Unintended Consequences of Shareholder Activism: A Socio-Cognitive Responses to Stakeholders’ Demands

Maria Ruiz-Castillo¹, Ruth V. Aguilera², Juan Alberto Aragón-Correa¹, Nuria Esther Hurtado-Torres¹

¹Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Granada, Granada, Spain; ²D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, Boston, USA; ESADE Business School, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain;

Breaking Bad or Leading Green? CEO Regulatory Focus and Environmental Misconduct

Mirjam Brandl, Michelle Weck, Jana Oehmichen

University of Mainz, Germany;

The Positive Spillover Effects of Corporate Misconduct: Board Interlocks and Corporate Social Responsibility

Ferres Daniel¹, Francisco Marcet²

¹Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay; ²University of Chile, Chile;

CEO Rationalization of Corporate Misconduct: A Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Model

Max Braun¹, Karen Schnatterly²

¹Freie Universität Berlin; ²Virginia Tech;

Uncovering Trait Activation within the Big Five Framework: An Analysis of CEO Neuroticism and Climate Change Action

Ben Dalka¹, Sebastian Firk², Yannik Gehrke¹, Michael Wolff¹

¹University of Goettingen, Germany; ²University of Groningen, The Netherlands;

Peer Death Experience and Corporate Policies

Oleksandr Talavera¹, Shuxing Yin², Mao Zhang³

¹Department of Economics, University of Birmingham; ²Management School, University of Sheffield; ³School of Management, University of St Andrews;

The double-edged sword of CEO cognitive complexity: The relationship with competitive repertoire complexity in different control and advice contexts

Johanna Eichhorn¹, Michelle K. Weck¹, Jan C. Hennig², Jana Oehmichen¹

¹Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany; ²Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands;

Is it Me or is it You? CEO-Director Forename Commonality, Implicit Egotism, and CEO Compensation

Sebastian Firk¹, Jan Hennig¹, Hauke Meyer²

¹University of Groningen, Netherlands, The; ²University of Göttingen, Germany;

M&A under financing frictions: evidence from credit supply shortfalls

Lucas Serrao Macoris¹, Luiz Ricardo Kabbach de castro²

¹INSPER - Institute of Education and Research, Brazil; ²University of Navarra;

Backing Away from ESG? The Effect of Sovereign Rating Downgrades on Corporate ESG Policies

Periklis Boumparis¹, Chris Florackis², Sushil Sainani², Omrane Guedhami³

¹Newcastle University Business School; ²University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; ³University of South Carolina;

VALUE CREATION IN PRIVATE EQUITY TRANSACTIONS: ACTIONS & STRATEGIES TO REACH MULTIPLE EXPANSION

Konstantin Maximilian Skora

IE, Germany;

Shareholder Orientation and Workforce Downsizing: Exploring the CEO-Shareholder Interface

Youngbin Joo¹, Dimitrios Georgakakis², Jatinder S. Sidhu¹

¹Leeds University, United Kingdom; ²York University, United Kingdom;

Governing innovation: How board quality shapes innovation?

Mirian Wawrzyniak Chimirri¹, Luiz Ricardo Kabbach Castro²

¹University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; ²University of Navarra, Spain;

Employer WARN-ing: Labor Dismissal Laws and Innovation

Vishal Baloria

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, United States of America;

The Role of Parent Country Directors in Business Groups’ Foreign Affiliates

Aleksandra Gregoric¹, Raquel Justo², Adrián Mérida³, Bartolomé Pascual-Fuster²

¹Copenhagen Business School; ²Universitat de les Illes Balears; ³Universidad Carlos III de Madrid;

CEO Risk Taking Equity Incentives and Workplace Misconduct

Justin Chircop¹, Monika Tarsalewska², Agnieszka Trzeciakiewicz³

¹Lancaster University, United Kingdom; ²Universtiy of Exeter, United Kingdom; ³University of York, United Kingdom;

CEO Cultural Masculinity and Earnings Management

Olga Dodd¹, Bart Frijns², Shushu Liao³, Xiu-Ye Zhang⁴

¹Auckland University of Technology; ²Open Universiteit; ³Kühne Logistics University; ⁴The Australian National University, Australia;

The Social Geography of Misconduct

Santiago Truffa¹, Matias Braun², Ercos Valdivieso³

¹ESE Business School, Chile; ²ESE Business School, Chile; ³Sungkyunkwan University.;

Big Brother is Watching You: The Effect of the CSISC Shareholding Program on Insider Trading

Marc Goergen¹, Guoqiang Hu², Jason Xiao³

¹IE Business School, Spain; ²Tianjin University of Finance & Economics, China; ³University of Macau, Macau, China;

CEO Tournament Incentives and Cost of Equity

Xiangshang Cai¹, Yiwei Li², Xiu-Ye Zhang³

¹University of Liverpool; ²University of Essex; ³The Australian National University;

The Effect of Tax Policies on Corporate Risk-Taking: Evidence From Bonus Depreciation

Spyridon Gkikopoulos

The University of Manchester, United Kingdom;

Bank Risk Governance

Dietmar Leisen¹, Peter Swan²

¹Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany; ²University of New South Wales, Australia;

Consumers Reaction to Corporate ESG Performance: Evidence from Store Visits

Tinghua Duan¹, Frank Weikai Li², Roni Michaely³

¹IESEG School of Management; ²Singapore Management University; ³University of Hong Kong and ECGI;

The Unintended Spillover: CSR Mandates and Corporate Self-Regulatory Adaptation

Siyu Liu¹, Zhiyan Wu²

¹Erasmus University; ²Erasmus University;

The Role of Language in Carbon Emissions: Exploring the Link Between Language Use and Sustainable Behaviour in Firms Across the Globe

Humoud Sakit, Panagiotis Loukopoulos

University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom;

Russian business leaders speaking out on the Ukraine invasion as a litmus test of a firm’s ESG

Andrea Melis¹, Simone Aresu¹, Yuwen Cai², Thomas Kaspereit²

¹University of Cagliari (Italy), Italy; ²University Luxembourg;

Overboarded

Annalisa Tonetto

University of Cambridge Judge Business School, United Kingdom;

Opting out: Understanding committee avoidance among expert directors

Ina Angelike Inge Karn¹, Esha Mendiratta², Sebastian Firk¹, Jana Oehmichen^1,3, Pedro de Faria¹

¹University of Groningen, Netherlands, The; ²Verlick Business School, Belgium; ³Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz;

Priorities of Non-Executive Board Directors’ Personal Values

Ricardo Alfredo Amaya, Patricia Gabaldón Quiñones

IE Business School, Spain;

The Influence of Board Institutional Expertise on Firm Performance

Georg Guttmann¹, Toru Yoshikawa²

¹University of St.Gallen, Switzerland; ²Waseda University, Japan;

Does gay pay off? The link between LGBTQ+ directors and firm outcomes

Ryan Federo¹, Ruth V. Aguilera²

¹Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain; ²Northeastern University, U.S.A.;

Board Nationality and Firm Value

Elisabeth Rae Dedman¹, Jing Chen², Ja Ryong Kim², Tarek Metwally³, Andrew William Stark⁴

¹Edge Hill University, United Kingdom; ²University of Nottingham; ³University of Huddersfield; ⁴University of Manchester;

DIVERSITY AND REPUTATION IN AN EMERGING MARKET CONTEXT

Jose Luis Rivas, Job Rubio

ITAM, Mexico;

Does It Pay to Exceed Institutional Norms for Female Representation on Corporate Boards?

Fatemeh Askarzadeh¹, Krista Lewellyn²

¹University of Houston - Downtown; ²Florida Southern College, United States of America;