Cardiff Corporate Governance Research Group
We aim to become a leading corporate governance research institute in the UK and globally.
We aim to become a leading corporate governance research institute in the UK and globally.
Corporate governance has been on policymakers’ agendas since the late 1980s/early 1990s when the UK experienced a wave of corporate scandals, most of which were caused by powerful CEOs who faced little or no resistance from their fellow board members.
Overseas scandals such as Enron, Worldcom and Parmalat further fuelled the debate on how corporate governance should be designed and regulated. Finally, the 2008 financial crisis, which was brought about by weak corporate governance and perverse executive incentive schemes in the banking sector, highlighted the implications of corporate governance failures for the broader economy.
Amcanion
- Raise the visibility of Cardiff Business School as one of the leading centres for excellence in Europe for corporate governance research.
- Serve as a platform in Cardiff Business School that facilitates cross-disciplinary research across Sections and across University Schools in corporate governance.
- Pursue Cardiff Business School's Public Value Strategy by establishing links between the group’s members and outside stakeholders to disseminate the Group’s research on corporate governance, inform its research and pave the way for potential impact.
Members of the group are studying a number of important issues and research questions in corporate governance.
These include:
- the design of executive compensation and incentive schemes
- the effect of board gender diversity on corporate decision making, innovation and firm value
- corporate social responsibility (CSR)
- the link between corporate control on the one side and dividend policy and insider trading on the other side
- corporate governance in initial public offerings and venture-capital backed companies
- the behavioural dynamics of boardrooms and corporate leadership
- corporate governance in banks
- the link between corporate governance and managers’ and investors’ decision making in the area of taxation
- the effect of anti-takeover provisions on corporate innovation
- corporate governance issues affecting family firms
- how women are framed in corporate discourse
- corporate governance in emerging markets, including China
- directors’ networks.
Director
Staff academaidd
Yr Athro Leighton Andrews
Professor of Practice in Public Service Leadership and Innovation
- Siarad Cymraeg
- andrewsl7@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 6564
Dr Izidin El Kalak
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Finance
- elkalaki@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 4961
Yr Athro Arman Eshraghi
Professor of Finance and Investment, Deputy Head of Section for Research, Impact and Innovation
- eshraghia@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2251 0880
Yr Athro Kevin Holland
Head of Accounting and Finance Section, Professor of Accounting and Taxation
- Siarad Cymraeg
- hollandk2@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 5725
Dr Helen Mussell
Lecturer in Organizational Studies
Director of Online Learning
- mussellh@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2068 8841
Dr Laima Spokeviciute
Lecturer in Accounting and Finance
- spokeviciutel@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 5839
Dr Yue Tina Xu
Lecturer in International Business and Management
- xuy63@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 4417
Myfyrwyr Ôl-raddedig
Staff cysylltiedig
The 2nd International Corporate Governance Conference, Friday 17 September 2021
Virtual conference organised by Cardiff University
Theme: “Emerging Challenges and Opportunities in Corporate Governance”
The implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic and recent global financial crisis continue to highlight the role of corporate governance in the broader economy. In a fast-moving and globalised corporate environment, designing and regulating corporate governance is ever more challenging. In particular, the recurrent corporate scandals of the last two decades have sparked a series of revisions to governance policies, initiating reforms on a global scale.
Following the success of the Inaugural International Corporate Governance held in 2018, the Cardiff Corporate Governance Research Group (CCGRG) organised a one-day virtual Conference on 17 September 2021. The aim of the Conference was to bring together leading researchers, practitioners and policymakers to discuss the grand challenges of a rapidly changing political, social and economic landscape.
The Conference Programme can be found in related downloads.
Keynote speakers
Mr Ken Skates MS is a member of Welsh Parliament (Senedd), and until recently, the Welsh Government’s Minister for Economy, Transport and North Wales.
Professor Konstantinos Stathopoulos is Professor of Accounting and Finance at Alliance Manchester Business School. Professor Stathopoulos is the joint Editor-in-Chief of Corporate Governance: An International Review.
Professor Marc Goergen is Professor of Finance at IE Business School, Spain. Professor Goergen is also a Research Associate of the ECGI and an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Management.