“That’s Novel!!!”

Hurray! Academy of International Business (AIB) AIB-US Northeast in Washington, DC (Oct 2022) recognized our paper as the most novel paper in the conference. The paper, co-authored with Tanusree Jain and Ajai Gaur, is titled “0wnership Concentration and Environmental Irresponsibility: A Contingency Approach to Corporate Governance.” If interested in this topic, feel free to email for the paper.

Special issue alert

Call for Papers
Corporate Governance: An International Review
Special Issue on
“Global Social Movements and the Governance of the Firm”

Submission Deadline: October 1, 2022.

Guest Editors:
Cynthia E. Clark, Bentley University, USA
Tanusree Jain, Trinity Business School, Ireland
Punit Arora, City University of New York, USA
Patricia Gabaldon, IE Business School, Spain

This Special Issue of Corporate Governance: An International Review (CGIR) aims to bring together scholarship on how various global social movements (GSMs) impact the practice of international corporate governance.

For more details, click here: GSM special issue CFP (Wiley)

Publication alert

Female Representation on Corporate Boards in Europe: The Interplay of Organizational Social Consciousness and Institutions. 

In this JBE paper:

We examine the role of alignment between organizational social consciousness and the informal and formal institutions of a country in increasing female representation on boards. Using fixed-effects and Hausman Taylor regression methodology for endogenous covariate with panel data for the years 2006–2020, we find that the greater the alignment between organizational social consciousness and certain formal (i.e., a gender quota) and informal (i.e., high gender equality) institutions, the more progress there is toward gender representation on corporate boards in Europe. We also find that more socially conscious firms make the most progress, often going beyond the minimum regulatory targets. By showing the complementarity of these factors, we address the enduring question of how the interplay of formal and informal institutions directly affects corporate behavior, thus contributing to the institutional, public policy/regulatory, and corporate governance literatures. We note the need for policymakers to go beyond mere codification of rules via quotas and simultaneously work toward raising national and organizational social consciousness levels on issues of gender equality.

(Recommended citation: Clark, C.E., Arora, P. & Gabaldon, P. Female Representation on Corporate Boards in Europe: The Interplay of Organizational Social Consciousness and Institutions. J Bus Ethics (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-021-04898-x).

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