Diversity and disobedience at the top, pay incentives, social norms, and board reforms: A kaleidoscope of corporate governance research

Abstract

This editorial intends to sum up some of our major accomplishments in the previous publishing year of Corporate Governance: An International Review and to stimulate and foster the global corporate governance community to take stock of the intriguing insights to be gathered from the research that we were able to release in 2021. It is the mission of CGIR to be the premier scholarly outlet for international corporate governance research that is both rigorously done and relevant to practitioners. Corporate governance is defined broadly as the exercise of power over corporate entities so as to increase the value provided to the organization's various stakeholders, as well as making those stakeholders accountable for acting responsibly with regard to the protection, generation, and distribution of wealth invested in the firm. Rigorous research builds or tests extant theory, contains clear definitions of constructs and well-specified relationships, demonstrates a command of previous literature, and is methodologically sound. Relevant research asks research questions that 394

Editorial: Social norms in managerial decision-making: Psychological and/or neural perspectives

“…There is also increasing attention from studies of managerial decision-making in recent years. For instance, several reviews and Editorial articles have emphasized the usefulness of social norm theory in empirical business ethics research (Blay et al, 2018 ) and corporate governance (Stathopoulos and Talaulicar, 2022 ). However, the discussion on management issues is insufficient.…”