scholarly journals Editorial: Geographical insights of the corporate governance research

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Alexander Kostyuk

The recent issue of Corporate Ownership and Control journal contains both empirical and review papers describing the wide variety of corporate governance issues from the board of directors and executive compensation to mergers and acquisitions, stock market and institutional investors. The geographical representation of the papers provides an excellent opportunity for international comparison.

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1, Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 222-224
Author(s):  
Paolo Tenuta ◽  
Alexander Kostyuk

Corporate governance is a system designed to improve corporate performance through supervision of management performance to ensure accountability to stakeholders based on a regulatory framework. Board of directors as a field of research becomes a major point for intersection of many other issues of corporate governance, such as financial reporting, firm performance, earnings management, stock market, and reaching even well-established fields of research such as accounting and finance. Most of the papers published in this issue (volume 18, issue 1, special issue) of the Corporate Ownership and Control journal are linked to the board of directors’ issues directly or indirectly.


Author(s):  
Jaap Winter

This chapter examines corporate law and governance from a behavioral perspective. It begins with an overview of the growing body of behavioral knowledge and its impact on the core assumptions of the agency theory. It then goes on to consider a number of specific areas of corporate law and governance where behavioral perspectives are particularly relevant, with particular emphasis on rule making. The chapter also explores how the board of directors performs, along with modern executive compensation systems, often in the form of performance-based pay. Finally, the chapter turns to the interaction between executives, non-executives, and (institutional) investors in corporate governance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Marco Tutino ◽  
Áron Perényi ◽  
Alexander Kostyuk

The recent issue of the Corporate Ownership and Control journal (volume 19, issue 1) covers the following key themes: accounting standards, corporate governance and social responsibility, public sector governance, financial management and firm performance. The authors represent a range of developed and developing countries, making this issue of the journal truly international.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Wan Adibah Binti Wan Ismail

<p>This study investigates whether family ownership and control, and corporate governance are associated with earnings quality, and whether family influence in firms weakens the association between corporate governance and earnings quality. This study uses a panel sample of 527 publicly traded firms over the period 2003-2008 from the Malaysia Stock Exchange (Bursa Malaysia). Identifying family firms as firms in which family members hold a significant portion of shares and possess control over the board of directors, this study finds that family firms have significantly higher earnings quality. The results remain unchanged, even after using alternative measures of earnings quality and family influence. This study also finds that the earnings quality of firms in Malaysia is positively associated with the size and independence of the audit committee and negatively associated with the size of the board of directors. However, these relationships exist only for nonfamily firms. These results on the corporate governance variables suggest that the effectiveness of corporate governance could be mediated by family influence. Using multivariate regressions that include interaction variables for corporate governance and family firms, the study finds that the relationship between corporate governance and earnings quality is mediated by family ownership and control. The result is consistent with the argument that the monitoring role of corporate governance reduces when there is substantial control by family owners in a firm. Overall, this study concludes that family ownership and control drives higher quality earnings for firms regardless of their corporate governance structure.</p>


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Wan Adibah Binti Wan Ismail

<p>This study investigates whether family ownership and control, and corporate governance are associated with earnings quality, and whether family influence in firms weakens the association between corporate governance and earnings quality. This study uses a panel sample of 527 publicly traded firms over the period 2003-2008 from the Malaysia Stock Exchange (Bursa Malaysia). Identifying family firms as firms in which family members hold a significant portion of shares and possess control over the board of directors, this study finds that family firms have significantly higher earnings quality. The results remain unchanged, even after using alternative measures of earnings quality and family influence. This study also finds that the earnings quality of firms in Malaysia is positively associated with the size and independence of the audit committee and negatively associated with the size of the board of directors. However, these relationships exist only for nonfamily firms. These results on the corporate governance variables suggest that the effectiveness of corporate governance could be mediated by family influence. Using multivariate regressions that include interaction variables for corporate governance and family firms, the study finds that the relationship between corporate governance and earnings quality is mediated by family ownership and control. The result is consistent with the argument that the monitoring role of corporate governance reduces when there is substantial control by family owners in a firm. Overall, this study concludes that family ownership and control drives higher quality earnings for firms regardless of their corporate governance structure.</p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Kostyuk

The recent issue of the journal Corporate Governance and Sustainability Review is devoted to the issues of the board of directors’ characteristics, working capital in emerging economy, corporate governance, price performance of IPOs, family firms etc.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4, Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 218-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maclyn Clouse ◽  
Alexander Kostyuk

The recent issue of Corporate Ownership and Control journal can be referred to a special issue because of the truly international outlook provided by the scholars from more than 10 countries of the world, such as Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Italy, Finland, Portugal, Egypt, Thailand, Tunisia, the UAE. All the papers published in this special issue have been divided into several research fields. The first is the board of directors’ practices. The second group of papers concerns the most actual national practices of corporate governance in such countries as Germany, France, Egypt, China, Thailand, OECD and 13 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. All the issues related to corporate governance considered by the authors of the papers published in this issue of the journal provide an excellent vision of the most challenging practices of corporate governance in the global context.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-213
Author(s):  
Utami Nuur Lailatul Idzniah ◽  
Yustrida Bernawati

Tax avoidance is the hottest issue in the last five years. It is reinforced with the Tax Amnesty Program by the Directorate General of Taxation (DJP), which began in June 2016. Therefore, this study aims to obtain empirical evidence of the influence of good corporate governance and executive compensation on corporate tax avoidance. This study used 215 banking companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) for 2014-2018. This study using a purposive sampling method that produced 119 suitable samples. The analytical method used is multiple linear regression analysis through IBM SPSS Statistics 25 software. Computation of tax avoidance is proxied by computing of Effective Tax Rates (ETR). Good corporate governance is proxied by the size of the board of directors and the audit committee, and executive compensation is proxied by all director compensations. The size of the audit committee is a total of the audit committee in one period. The size of the board of directors is the total of the board committee in one period. This study used ROA and Leverage as a control variable. In this study, it was found that executive compensation and good corporate governance, which was proxied by the Size of the board of directors and the Size of the audit committee shown a positive effect on tax avoidance. Investors who do not want tax avoidance must pay attention to executive compensation and good corporate governance in the company. In contrast, control variables have not significant effect on tax avoidance.


2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (79) ◽  
pp. 28-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isac de Freitas Brandão ◽  
Alessandra Carvalho de Vasconcelos ◽  
Márcia Martins Mendes De Luca ◽  
Vicente Lima Crisóstomo

ABSTRACT This article investigates, in the Brazilian capital market, the effect of the composition of the board of directors on executive compensation sensitivity to market performance, known as pay-performance sensitivity (PPS). Due to potential agency conflicts between controlling and minority shareholders and between shareholders and managers, members of the board of directors of the executive board or those appointed by the controlling shareholder might have less independence, something which may compromise monitoring effectiveness and, consequently, reduce the PPS. The purpose is contributing to understand the agency conflicts that have taken place in the Brazilian capital market and to define the configuration of the monitoring and compensation mechanisms that minimize total agency costs, maximizing shareholders’ wealth. The research results have implications for understanding the agency relations and for corporate governance in the Brazilian capital market. It is concluded that the relation between the monitoring exercised by the board of directors and executive compensation is a condition for its effectiveness as a governance mechanism in the Brazilian capital market. Data within the period 2013-2015 from 92 companies that participate in the Brazil 100 Index (IBRX 100) of the São Paulo Stock, Mercantile & Futures Exchange (BM&FBOVESPA) were analyzed. In addition to tests of difference between mean values and correlation, estimates were processed through feasible generalized least squares modeling. The independence of the board of directors vis-à-vis the controlling shareholder and the executive board may work as a corporate governance mechanism supplementing executive compensation. The results of this study indicate that the proportion of executives and independent members in the board of directors reduces the PPS, a measurement for executive compensation effectiveness made operational by the contemporary relation between increased managers’ compensation and increased company’s market value.


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