Handbook of Research Methods for Corporate Governance

✍ Scribed by Nicola Cucari; Sibel Yamak; Salvatore Esposito De Falco; Bill Lee

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 371
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This Handbook provides an incisive, rigorous and contemporary guide to research methods in the continually evolving area of corporate governance, offering a welcome focus on holistic approaches to research. Not only analysing existing research methods dominated by the quantitative-qualitative dichotomy, it also explores the crucial need to challenge assumptions and methodologies in order to advance research in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Preface
PART I NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
1. Employing historical methods and perspectives in corporate governance
2. Understanding persistence and change in corporate governance rules, structures and practices in the situationist view of organisations
3. Ethics and research methodology in the studying of corporate governance
PART II NEW RESEARCH DESIGNS
4. Building new theories and a specific concept for boards of directors: the practicholar research design
5. In search of relevance: exploring board work in hybrid organizations through an engaged scholarship approach
6. Polymorphic research and boards of directors: let us make a better world together
7. Inclusive governance of partnerships for sustainability: methodological matters
PART III NEW APPROACHES TO EMPIRICAL STUDIES
8. Understanding persistence and change in corporate governance rules, structures and practices: from shareholder logic to stakeholder logic in the US model
9. Disentangling corporate social responsibility: the impact of corporate governance on the social and environmental performance of pharmaceutical and biotech firms
10. Expanding discussions on incentives on corporate governance: employees’ compensation and organizational justice
11. Using Q methodology to open the “black box” of corporate governance
12. Innovative application of digital technologies in rapid change phenomena in boards
13. The methodological challenges to opening up the black box of boardroom dynamics
14. Qualitative insights into corporate governance reform, management decision-making, and accounting performance: semi-structured interview evidence from Kuwait
15. Integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches in corporate governance research
Index