In the light of the strong commitment by the EU in undertaking a sustainable path toward the goals set by the Paris Agreement and the UN 2030 Agenda, and the prospected EU initiatives concerning the establishment of a sustainable corporate …

This chapter explores how organizations can address various sustainability challenges including climate change, human and labor rights, and sustain the global commons. As no business can address these systemic challenges alone, a particular focus …

The relationship between the Board and management has been a key issue of corporate governance for Bretton Woods institutions, and there is no exception to the AIIB. A new multilateral development bank (MDB) derived from Bretton Woods, the AIIB is …

Traditionally, the academic literature on corporate law and governance has cabined problems of externalities—unpriced economic effects on nonconsenting third parties—to other legal domains, such as tort law and employment law. However, the most …

The debate on sustainable finance seldom includes the perspective of shareholders. However, shareholders are important for the governance of publicly held corporations today because their holdings are concentrated in the hands of a few …

The rule of law is enshrined in the Treaty on the European Union (TEU) as one of the common and fundamental values for all member states, a value that the EU shall uphold and promote internally and in its relations with the wider world. The …

We analyse a number of dimensions of corporate governance practices and the interrelation between them and with firm value for a sample of 160 Brazilian firms between 2011 and 2017. Our analysis is based on a set of 42 corporate governance …

The Palgrave Handbook of Sovereign Wealth Funds aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of SWFs from a multidimensional perspective. It spans the gamut from theoretical to practical while offering the right balance of detailed and user-friendly …

This study aims to examine the impact of corporate governance mechanisms and ownership structure on Saudi-listed firms’ capital structure decisions. The study uses 420 firm-year observations from 70 Saudi non-financial listed firms from 2016 to …

This study aims to analyze corporate governance mechanism on the disclosure of corporate social responsibility. The samples are sharia compliant companies in energy sector listed at the Indonesia Stock Exchange of 2017–2021 period. The independent …

Chapter 4 examines the relationship between corporate governance and banking failures. It explores the concept of corporate governance in the banking sector, applying insights from agency theory. This chapter discusses how to reduce agency costs …

After the bursting of the stock market bubble at the end of the 1980s Japan began to comprehensively reform its corporate governance system. Modernising Japan’s corporate governance system was seen as one of the key levers to making Japanese …

Corporate social responsibility encourages companies to mingle and do community service to be able to help the community in overcoming existing problems. Social responsibility is also an indicator of the assessment of investors to invest in a …

Since the Chinese government put forward the “dual carbon target”, China’s ESG has entered a stage of rapid development, and people from all walks of life pay increased attention to the ESG governance concept of listed companies. Most of the …

The authors consider the issue of corporate governance of industrial parks in the context of ESG. The authors point out that industrial parks include ESG aspects in their activities and manage the impact on the environmental and social components.

This study aims at identifying the dynamics of research on corporate governance under economic and pandemic crisis conditions. The main objective is to conduct a longitudinal analysis over the last 15 years (2008−2022). Bibliometric analysis …

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are widely recognized as particularly vulnerable to external shocks’ impacts. In this book chapter, we investigate the potential role of enterprise risk management (ERM) and corporate governance (CG) …