Francesca Cuomo

University of East Anglia | UEA · Norwich Business School

Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: Given the global diffusion and the relevance of codes of good governance, the aim of this article is to investigate if the main reason behind their proliferation in civil law countries is: (i) the determination to improve the efficiency of the national governance system; or (ii) the will to “legit...

There is a commonly held conviction among governance scholars and practitioners that increasing the number of non-executive directors may have beneficial effects on board practices. This view has gained momentum after each wave of scandals. Given the relevance of the issue in governance studies and practices, the aim of this paper is to investigate...

A general view in the corporate governance literature is that corporate ownership structures are rather stable in time and change slowly. However, even if changes in ownership structures are difficult due to path dependence, anecdotal evidence indicates that some sort of transition towards the US style corporate ownership could be occurring in civi...

Studies about the diffusion of practices have traditionally assumed a passive behavior of either acceptance or rejection from the adopting organizations. Coherently with recent theoretical developments, this study contributes to challenge this view by exploring if practices can be “adapted” by organizations implementing them. In particular, our the...

Manuscript Type Review Research Question/Issue This study reviews previous country‐level and firm‐level studies on corporate governance codes up to 2014 in order to highlight recent trends and indicate future avenues of research. Research Findings/Results Our data show that research on codes increases over time consistently with the diffusion and...

Using a large sample of EU non-financial firms over the period 2008-2018, this study examines the effect of the 2014 EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and finds that the Directive has led to an increase in CSR transparency and performance. Further, it shows that the association between the Directive and C...

This report is the first in-depth assessment of the quality of reporting from UK private companies who have chosen to follow the Wates Principles. The report shows that the Wates Principles are the most widely adopted corporate governance code used by large private companies. The research shows that companies are grasping the spirit of the Wates P...

New Research on Corporate Governance in Large Family Firms 22nd May 2019 A new report by the IFB Research Foundation has shed new light on the corporate governance arrangements of the UK’s largest family firms. The first work of its kind in the UK the report examines corporate governance arrangements, and also provides new information on the repr...

Manuscript type Empirical Research question/issue We examine whether the presence of women on the remuneration committee has an influence on say‐on‐pay voting. Research findings/insights Based on panel data from the UK's FTSE 350 firms from 2003 to 2015, we find that firms with women on the remuneration committee reduce shareholders’ dissent via...

Dominant legal (La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, Shleifer, & Vishny, 1997, 1998, 2000) and political (Roe, 2003) views of corporate governance systems suggest that such institutional changes as regulatory reforms and privatization processes can break down the institutions of stable shareholding. So the partial stability of ownership patterns in Italy du...