15 research idea notes tagged “governance”. Read them as Markdown, JSON or an Atom feed.
Shareholder activism appears on only 11 recent papers, and 8 activism papers carry a climate or ESG keyword. Activist funds have pushed oil companies in opposite directions: toward climate targets in 2021, away from renewable spending more recently. Which campaigns win, and what happens to the companies' strategies and emissions afterwards?
Papers in the last 30 days — shareholder activism: 1
Whistleblowing appears on 16 recent papers across the tracked journals, mostly on whether employees speak up. Reward programmes at the SEC and now the EU and other regulators pay tipsters a share of penalties. Do rewards bring forward the discovery of fraud, and do they change what happens inside firms?
Papers in the last 30 days — corporate fraud: 2
Fund families now vote at thousands of shareholder meetings a year, and many follow proxy advisors' recommendations almost automatically. Yet only 9 recent papers in the archive carry a shareholder-voting or proxy-advisor keyword, none of them about funds. Does robo-voting decide close votes, and has pass-through voting changed that?
Related-party transactions appear on 23 recent papers and tunneling on 17, almost all in finance journals and mostly about Chinese business groups. As rules on these transactions tighten and disclosure moves to machine-readable formats, can tunneling be detected at scale, and did the rules reduce it?
Papers in the last 30 days — related-party transactions: 1
Private equity is a small but rising keyword in the finance journals, and only 2 of 22 recent private-equity papers touch health care. Private equity firms now own a large share of nursing homes and physician practices in several countries. Do their cost cuts show up in quality of care, and who pays?
Papers in the last 30 days — private equity: 1 · nursing homes: 1
Political connections are a large topic across the finance, economics and management journals, and a rising one in management. Yet only 10 of 106 recent papers on them carry a corruption keyword. More than a decade after China's anti-corruption campaign began, are connections still worth anything, and to whom?
Papers in the last 30 days — political connections: 6 · anti-corruption campaign: 1
Non-state-owned enterprises are a rising keyword in the economics journals, and state ownership is one of the most common comparisons in research on Chinese firms. Yet "mixed ownership reform" appears on only 9 recent papers. When private investors buy into state firms, do governance and performance change, or only the shareholder list?
Papers in the last 30 days — state-owned enterprises: 21 · non-state-owned enterprises: 7
Insider trading appears on 40 recent papers in the finance and accounting journals, and 17 of 45 carry a regulation or enforcement keyword, but "trading plan" appears on one. Since 2023, US executives' pre-scheduled trading plans must have cooling-off periods and be disclosed. Did the plans stop being a cover for informed trades?
Papers in the last 30 days — insider trading: 2
Profit sharing and employee ownership appear on 24 recent papers spread thinly across the tracked journals. As founders of the baby-boom generation retire, employee buyouts and ownership trusts are one way to pass on firms. Do employee-owned firms survive longer, pay better, and invest differently?
Papers in the last 30 days — profit sharing: 2
Stakeholder theory appears on 88 recent papers in the management and finance journals, but corporate purpose on 4 and stakeholder capitalism on 2. Hundreds of large firms signed statements putting stakeholders before shareholders in 2019. Several years on, did the signatories treat workers, suppliers and communities differently?
Papers in the last 30 days — stakeholder theory: 7
Corporate misconduct, reputational risk and corporate scandals appear on 90 recent papers across the management, finance and accounting journals, mostly one firm at a time. Firms share directors, auditors, suppliers and bankers. Does misconduct travel along those links, and can network position predict who is next?
Papers in the last 30 days — reputational risk: 2
Executive compensation appears on 114 recent papers, yet only 14 of 144 pay papers carry a disclosure, pay-ratio, say-on-pay or transparency keyword. Firms in the US and UK now publish the ratio of CEO pay to median worker pay. Did it change CEO pay, worker pay or neither?
Papers in the last 30 days — executive compensation: 7
Board composition is one of the fastest-growing keywords across the tracked journals, and board gender diversity is a large topic in finance, accounting and management. But only 7 of 135 such papers carry a quota, mandate or regulation keyword, just as the EU's quota directive reaches its target date. Do quotas change how boards decide, or only who sits on them?
Papers in the last 30 days — board gender diversity: 4
Corporate transparency is a rising keyword in the management journals, while beneficial ownership barely appears in the archive. In November 2022 the EU Court of Justice struck down general public access to the registers of companies' beneficial owners. Did the return of anonymity bring back shell companies and opaque property purchases?
Papers in the last 30 days — corporate transparency: 1 · anti-money laundering: 1
The keyword "AI governance" is growing fastest across the tracked journals, while corporate governance keeps rising in economics and management. Is board-level oversight of AI turning into a research stream of its own?
Papers in the last 30 days — AI governance: 9 · corporate governance: 51