“…Amid the novelty of boards for academics as well as for executives, investors, and regulators, several topics were studied, such as board contributions to financial performance (Almeida, Klotzle, & Pinto, 2013;Condrige, Clemente, & Espejo, 2012;Silveira, Barros, & Famá, 2003), the importance of independent directors (Moura, Almeida, Vecchia & Mazzioni, 2017;Santos, Orso, Lizote, & Marcon, 2018), and CEO duality (Costa & Martins, 2019;Dani, Kaveski, Santos, Leite, & Cunha, 2017). These and other topics have been explored in studies in Brazil, and it is important to know what evidence has been accumulated.…”