November 8, 2022, welcomed a full seminar with speaker Peter McKiernan who shared great insight on making business and management research freer and more responsible. McKiernan spoke in great detail on researchers’ social and epistemic duty to produce good science.McKiernan emphasised factual but unwelcomed purposeful and unpurposeful outcomes of research. One fact underlined why researchers […]
For an accounting translation of the Anthropocene: fuelling the debate on planetary boundaries
In this paper, researcher Richard Jabot seeks to problematize the need for debate in operationalizing the planetary boundaries framework when accounting for the Anthropocene. The paper’s aim is achieved through a literature review focusing on the assumptions around the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and organizations. The author conducted an integrated review of 91 documents discussing the […]
BOOK CHAPTER: LOOKING THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY – TRANSPARENCY AS A MISGUIDED REGULATORY INSTRUMENT IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Authors Wafa Khlif, Finn Janning and Coral Ingley have published a chapter (Looking through a glass darkly – transparency as a misguided regulatory instrument in corporate governance) in the book Sustainability in Public Procurement, Corporate Law and Higher Education. The book sheds light on contemporary changes in law and Policy at the global level to efficiently […]
Female directors and the firm’s cost of debt: Evidence from a quasi-natural Experiment
Whereas in 2001 women held around 5% of board seats in Norway, in 2007 their representation increased to more than 40%. This extraordinary change was the result of a board-gender quota regulation enacted in 2006. This study leverages this unique research setting and implements difference-in-differences estimations to investigate whether the appointment of female directors affects the firm’s cost of […]
Research Handbook on Corporate Board Decision-Making
With a state-of-the-art perspective on corporate board decision-making that encourages thinking outside the box, this cutting-edge Research Handbook provides fresh insights on the meaning, value, contribution, quality and purpose of the decision-making of those charged with corporate governance. Expert contributors reflect on what boards decide, what they focus on when making these decisions, and how […]