The Cross-National Diversity of Corporate Governance: Dimensions and Determinants

By Ruth V. Aguilera, Gregory Jackson. 2003

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Subfields: Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Role of Country- and Firm-Level Determinants in Environmental, Social, and Governance Disclosure (2016, positive): “Since the early 1990s, previous studies have examined country effects on nonfinancial disclosure (e.g., Aguilera and Jackson 2003; Campbell 2007; Freedman and Stagliano 1992; Fekrat et al. 1996; Gamble et al. 1996).”
Ownership, Activism and Engagement: Institutional Investors as Active Owners (2016, neutral): “Thus, while developments in policy and institutions have sought to pull investors toward engagement, pressure from markets seems to push them toward trading (Aguilera & Jackson, 2003; Davis, 2008, 2010).”
The influence of board characteristics on sustainability reporting Empirical evidence from Sri Lankan firms (2014, background): “To mitigate agency problems and costs a board of directors is appointed to monitor the actions of managers ( Jensen and Meckling, 1976; Fama and Jensen, 1983; Eisenhardt, 1989; Aguilera and Jackson, 2003).”
An Organizational Approach to Comparative Corporate Governance: Costs, Contingencies, and Complementarities (2008, positive): “As such, complementarities has emerged as a key concept in comparative work on the diversity of national systems of corporate governance (Aguilera and Jackson 2003; Schmidt and Spindler 2004).”
Understanding Agency Problems in Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationships in Multinational Corporations: A Contextualized Model (2018, background): “…more recent development in agency research recognizes that the agency relation does not occur in a vacuum but is embedded in a social context (Aguilera & Jackson, 2003; Arrow, 1994; Cuevas-Rodríguez, Gomez-Mejia, & Wiseman, 2012; Doney, Cannon, & Mullen, 1998; Hoenen & Kostova, 2014;…”
Unpacking the Institutional Complexity in Adoption of CSR Practices in Multinational Enterprises (2016, positive): “With the globalization of business, social and environmental behaviours are becoming increasingly dependent on global economic networks (Aguilera and Jackson, 2007).”
Home country institutions and the internationalization of state owned enterprises: A cross-country analysis (2016, background): “As such, our study also contributes to the comparative corporate governance literature (Aguilera & Jackson, 2003; Filatotchev, et al., 2013; Wiseman, et al., 2012) by providing new insights into the mechanisms by which national institutions and corporate ownership interact in shaping business…”
Corporate Social Responsibility in Challenging and Non-enabling Institutional Contexts: Do Institutional Voids matter? (2014, neutral): “…Eweje 2006; Azmat and Samaratunge 2009; Amaeshi et al. 2006; Adegbite et al. 2012, 2013; Adegbite 2014; Blowfield and Frynas 2005; Campbell 2007; Deakin and Whittaker 2007; McWilliams and Siegel 2001; Aguilera et al. 2006, 2007; Doh and Guay 2006; Matten and Moon 2008; Aguilera and Jackson 2003).”
Maturation of Corporate Governance Research, 1993-2007: An Assessment (2009, background): “In this vein, Aguilera and Jackson (2003) conceptualize how institutional domains of property rights, financial systems, interfirm networks, labor representation rights, union organization, labor skill formation, management careers, and ideology shape corporate governance arrangements.”
State Capacity, Minority Shareholder Protections, and Stock Market Development (2016, methodology): “Over the years, a number of institutions have protected minority shareholder rights, including formal laws and regulations, codes of good corporate governance, taken-for-granted assumptions about the appropriate role of the various stakeholders, and other informal norms of behavior sanctioned by tra”
Did Board Configuration Matter? The Case of US Subprime Lenders (2011, neutral): “Shleifer and Vishny (1997) and Aguilera and Jackson (2003) suggest that governance environments differ between countries.”
What We Know and Don’t Know About Corporate Social Responsibility (2012, background): “For example, Aguilera et al. (2007) put forward a conceptual framework that outlines how employee psychological needs drive engagement in CSR.”
Labor Regulation, Corporate Governance, and Legal Origin: A Case of Institutional Complementarity? (2007, background): “Thus while there may be a common impetus across systems for incentivecompatible solutions to the separation of ownership and control, as agency theory suggests, this cannot account for the diversity of adaptations which are found in different national systems (Aoki, 2001: 18; Aguilera and Jackson, 2”
Who is in charge? A property rights perspective on stakeholder governance (2012, positive): “In property rights theory, the relevant stakeholders are defined as all investors who create transaction- and/or firm-specific property under the reasonable expectation of a return on investment through interaction with the firm (Aguilera and Jackson, 2003; Asher et al., 2005; Blair, 1995).”