About the Book

This Handbook provides an incisive, rigorous and contemporary guide to research methods in the continually evolving area of corporate governance, offering a welcome focus on holistic approaches to research. Not only analysing existing research methods dominated by the quantitative-qualitative dichotomy, it also explores the crucial need to challenge assumptions and methodologies in order to advance research in the field.

Engaging with critical discussions of corporate governance, this Handbook presents novel approaches to research designs and practices including data collection, sampling and analysis in corporate governance, encouraging scholars to move beyond existing paradigms and conceptions. Its coupling of case studies with theoretical approaches allows the Handbook to scrutinise basic issues in the field while also delving into unknown territory to advance and, indeed, revolutionise methods. Chapters offer a timely opportunity to explore, revisit and critically examine new methodological insights and innovations in the corporate governance scholarship with the purpose of advancing diversity and novel theorising in this field.

This Handbook presents an engaging, innovative and invaluable guide to researchers and higher education students in corporate governance and business management, along with scholars investigating research methods in the corporate governance field.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Preface ix PART I NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 1 Employing historical methods and perspectives in corporate governance 2 Duncan Connors and Andrew Perchard 2 Understanding persistence and change in corporate governance rules, structures and practices in the situationist view of organisations 20 Piero Mastroberardino and Giuseppe Calabrese 3 Ethics and research methodology in the studying of corporate governance 39 Ivo De Loo and Hugo Letiche PART II NEW RESEARCH DESIGNS 4 Building new theories and a specific concept for boards of directors: the practicholar research design 57 Daniel Yar Hamidi and Wafa Khlif 5 In search of relevance: exploring board work in hybrid organizations through an engaged scholarship approach 71 Anup Banerjee 6 Polymorphic research and boards of directors: let us make a better world together 90 Morten Huse and Muthu de Silva 7 Inclusive governance of partnerships for sustainability: methodological matters 110 Mine Karatas-Ozkan, Linda Baines and Vadim Grinevich PART III NEW APPROACHES TO EMPIRICAL STUDIES 8 Understanding persistence and change in corporate governance rules, structures and practices: from shareholder logic to stakeholder logic in the US model 129 Piero Mastroberardino, Giuseppe Calabrese and Rosario Bianco 9 Disentangling corporate social responsibility: the impact of corporate governance on the social and environmental performance of pharmaceutical and biotech firms 160 Francesco Gangi, Eugenio D’Angelo and Lucia Michela Daniele 10 Expanding discussions on incentives on corporate governance: employees’ compensation and organizational justice 199 Luciana Iwashita-da-Silva and Sergio Bulgacov 11 Using Q methodology to open the “black box” of corporate governance 223 Matthew Sorola 12 Innovative application of digital technologies in rapid change phenomena in boards 245 Fabio Oliveira, Nadeem Khan and Nada Korac-Kakabadse 13 The methodological challenges to opening up the black box of boardroom dynamics 268 Amedeo Pugliese, Alessandro Zattoni, Bruno Buchetti, and Francesca Romana Arduino 14 Qualitative insights into corporate governance reform, management decision-making, and accounting performance: semi-structured interview evidence from Kuwait 291 Abdullah Alajmi and Andrew C. Worthington 15 Integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches in corporate governance research 322 Lei Chen, Jo Danbolt, John Holland and Bill Lee Index 342