Chapter 4: Building new theories and a specific concept for boards of directors: the practicholar research design

This chapter suggest a collaborative research design for corporate governance research that not only integrates interaction but also joint theory and concept building, with practice. The proposed research design builds bridges for reflection between scholars and practitioners, while offering relevant processes and a systematic approach to theory and concept building. The authors call the design […]

CSR audit at a crossroads: What the daily experience of auditors teaches us

This paper contributes to the growing literature surrounding the issues of CSR assurance from a new perspective, that of auditors’ daily experience. Using an ethnography of two audit firms, the authors show that a gap exists between the conception that companies have of what CSR is (and should be) on the one hand and that which […]

Mi casa de los Espíritus (My house of spirits): Challenging patriarchy with magical feminism

A note from the author of  Mi casa de los Espíritus: This paper draws on magical feminism, a writing that engages in a critic of patriarchy through inexplicable events that address gender inequality and the power of the oppressed. This magic has always been in me but always dormant in my academic writing. To let […]

Football and Cryptocurrencies

This article investigates the emerging segment of the cryptocurrency market related to football fan tokens (FFTs)—digital assets used for engagement with professional football clubs around the world. More specifically, the authors study the investability of FFTs from the perspective of risk and return. They find that FFTs generate a whopping 150% return on the first […]

Board gender diversity and firm solvency: Evidence from Scandinavia

The implementation of a board gender quota in Norway in 2006 resulted in an extraordinary increase in the number of female directors over a short period of time. As a result, previous studies have used this unique scenario to examine the effects of appointing female directors on various corporate outcomes, such as the cost of […]