Research Handbook on Corporate Governance and Ethics

Edited by Till Talaulicar, Professor of Organization and Management, University of Erfurt, Germany

Contents:

1 Setting the scene to study the interrelationships between corporate governance and ethics: an introduction to the Research Handbook 1
Till Talaulicar

PART I THE STAKEHOLDER TURN OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABLE VALUE CREATION
2 Stakeholder governance: on overcoming the problems in the traditional narrative of capitalism 25
Flore Bridoux and J.W. Stoelhorst
3 Sustainability ethics and team production: implications for value-creating boards in SMEs 48
Jonas Gabrielsson and Morten Huse
4 Building back better – a new paradigm for corporate governance 68
Eleanor O’Higgins
5 How board structure affects social performance and stakeholder management: an example from classified boards 86
Jill A. Brown, Anne Anderson and Sami Ghaddar

PART II CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, SUSTAINABILITY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
6 Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility: revisiting their inter-relationship 113
Tanusree Jain, Adrián Zicari and Ruth V. Aguilera
7 Growing integration between sustainability and corporate governance: the role of government regulation 130
Jette Steen Knudsen
8 Women directors and sustainability: a contribution of networking activities 144
Patricia Gabaldón, Daniela Gimenez-Jimenez and Giovanna Campopiano
9 Should we integrate corporate social responsibility with corporate governance? An empirical investigation of good governance codes’ recommendations 157
Alessandro Zattoni and Francesca Cuomo

PART III VALUES, NORMS AND INSTITUTIONS
10 Informal institutions and corporate governance 176
Emmanouil Dedoulis and Stergios Leventis
11 The role of values in corporate governance 192
Marne Arthaud-Day
12 Values conflicts and the board of directors 210
Cynthia E. Clark
13 Risk perceptions of corporate directors: isomorphic influences and ethical implications 224
LouAnn Conner, Ralf Barkemeyer and Fanny Salignac

PART IV MANAGERIAL DISCRETION AND MANAGERIAL OBLIGATIONS
14 Managerial discretion: a review and future directions 244
Roman Kurdyukov, Shawn L. Berman, Michael E. Johnson-Cramer, Heather Elms and Robert A. Phillips
15 Moral obligations to third parties required by fiduciary duties to principals: a reflection through shareholder primacy 263
Santiago Mejia

PART V PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS AND UNDERPINNINGS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
16 A Smithian theory of governance – Adam Smith on corporations and governance 278
Michael S. Aßländer
17 How does MacIntyre extend Aristotle’s account of phronesis and what does this imply for corporate governance? 293
Alejo José G. Sison and Dulce M. Redín
18 A pragmatist case for thoughtfulness and experimentation in corporate governance 310
Donald Nordberg
19 The moral legitimacy of profit orientation 328
Ingo Pies and Stefan Hielscher

PART VI GRAND SOCIETAL CHALLENGES AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
20 Corporate governance and inequality 349
Saneesh Edacherian and Hari Bapuji
21 Corporate governance, executive pay, and the ethical and institutional abandonment of the working class 365
Thomas Clarke
22 Corporate governance and grand societal challenges: organization-centric and problem-centric perspectives 383
Madalina Pop, Sven Kunisch and Annabeth Aagaard

Index 421