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  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,259 Views
16 Pages

This paper examines the impact of board diversity, CEO characteristics, and board committees on the financial performance of the companies listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE). In order to test the influence of these characteristics, detailed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Finance, Governance, and Social Responsibility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,605 Views
12 Pages

Unveiling the Link between Corporate Board Attributes, Board Behavior, and Financial Leverage: Insights from Malaysia

  • Hussain Tahir,
  • Mahfuzur Rahman,
  • Md. Abdul Kaium Masud and
  • Mohammed Mizanur Rahman

The aim of this paper is to examine the characteristics and conduct of boards in non-financial Malaysian firms, with a particular emphasis on the companies’ financial leverage, using panel data spanning from 2012 to 2018. Overall, the study reveals t...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Economics and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,187 Views
24 Pages

24 January 2022

The mating of the board-to-board (BtB) connector is rugged because of its design complexity, small pitch (0.4 mm), and susceptibility to damage. Currently, the assembly task of BtB connectors is performed manually because of these factors. A high cha...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence in Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,622 Views
14 Pages

This paper studies the impact of independent board members on the financial performance of companies listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange during the period 2016–2020. Different characteristics of the board of directors have been examined extensivel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Finance, Governance, and Social Responsibility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,600 Views
26 Pages

1 July 2020

This study analyses whether the board characteristics (diversity attributes, competitive capital, time commitment) of companies listed on the Financial Times Stock Exchange FTSE100 exhibit a different performance compared to those associated with con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,499 Views
15 Pages

19 September 2022

The notion that female directors are better disposed to protect shareholders’ interests has brought boardroom gender diversity into the limelight. Echoing these emerging trends, this paper analyzes the relationship between board gender diversit...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,647 Views
18 Pages

22 January 2020

This study proposes an original structural model that analyzes the relationship between sustainable firm performance, and a board of directors’ external and internal social capital. Data collected in 232 non-listed and family-run small and medi...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,148 Views
22 Pages

What Determines Corporate Board Diligence? Evidence from Emerging Market

  • Badar Alshabibi,
  • Hidaya Al Lawati,
  • Mohd Abass Bhat,
  • Naser Makarem and
  • Shagufta Tariq Khan

This study investigates the impact of board attributes (board size, board independence, gender diversity, and nationality diversity) on corporate board diligence through employing panel data of listed firms in Muscat Securities Market from 2014 to 20...

(This article belongs to the Section Business and Entrepreneurship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,870 Views
21 Pages

This paper aims to investigate the perceptions of Iraqi medium-sized enterprises’ board members on how board information technology governance mechanisms affect their companies’ performance with the help of IT capabilities as a mediator....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Contemporary Issues on Auditing and Financial Reporting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,552 Views
17 Pages

Our research investigates the moderating roles of various board characteristics (independence, gender diversity, tenure, duality, and size) on the curvilinear relationship between board directorships and carbon emissions using a two-step generalized...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Governance and Carbon Accounting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,910 Views
31 Pages

CognitOS Board: A Wall-Sized Board to Support Presentations in Intelligent Environments

  • Asterios Leonidis,
  • Maria Korozi,
  • Georgios Nikitakis,
  • Anastasia Ntagianta and ,
  • Antonis Dimopoulos,
  • Emmanouil Zidianakis,
  • Eleni Stefanidi and
  • Margherita Antona
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

The proliferation of Internet of Things devices and services and their integration in everyday environments led to the emergence of intelligent offices, classrooms, conference, and meeting rooms that adhere to the paradigm of Ambient Intelligence. Us...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Networking, Computing and Immersive Technologies for Smart Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,039 Views
17 Pages

On-Board Wind Scatterometry

  • Xingou Xu,
  • Xiaolong Dong and
  • Yu Xie

9 April 2020

Real-time (RT) ocean surface wind can make key improvements to disaster alarmingand safety of maritime navigation to avoid loss in property and human lives. Wind scatterometry is a well-acquainted way of obtaining good quality ocean surface winds, an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tropical Cyclones Remote Sensing and Data Assimilation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,074 Views
22 Pages

Tempering Financial Reporting Risk through Board Risk Management

  • Mark Beasley,
  • Allen Blay,
  • Christina Lewellen and
  • Michelle McAllister

Recent corporate governance failures have heightened stakeholder expectations that the board of directors engage in robust oversight of the firm’s risk management processes. This expectation is in line with widely embraced enterprise risk manag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk Planning and Management in Companies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,827 Views
19 Pages

How do board characteristics influence the risk of bankruptcy? We study this question by estimating classic Z-Score models using panel data comprising 2519 listed non-financial firms from 29 European countries over the 2012–2020 period. We foun...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Finance, Governance, and Social Responsibility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,990 Views
26 Pages

20 January 2025

This paper explores the effect of board diversity on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance in Korean-listed firms using regression analysis. Our findings reveal that an increased board size significantly correlates with higher ESG s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
133 Citations
17,218 Views
19 Pages

18 October 2022

This study examines the influence of the diversity of the board of directors (BoD) and the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of 105 Italian banks during the period 2017–2021. Our analysis investigates board diversity in ter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,590 Views
27 Pages

This study investigates the relationship between various attributes of boards of directors on bank performance in light of Saudi corporate governance regulations. The data set of this study is extracted from the annual reports of all 12 banks listed...

(This article belongs to the Section Banking and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,860 Views
15 Pages

Sequential Recommendations on Board-Game Platforms

  • JaeWon Kim,
  • JeongA Wi,
  • SooJin Jang and
  • YoungBin Kim

2 February 2020

The game market is an increasingly large industry. The board-game market, which is the most traditional in the game market, continues to show a steady growth. It is very important for both publishers and players to predict the propensity of users in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,456 Views
28 Pages

Analysis of Single Board Architectures Integrating Sensors Technologies

  • José Luis Álvarez,
  • Juan Daniel Mozo and
  • Eladio Durán

21 September 2021

Development boards, Single-Board Computers (SBCs) and Single-Board Microcontrollers (SBMs) integrating sensors and communication technologies have become a very popular and interesting solution in the last decade. They are of interest for their simpl...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,246 Views
24 Pages

21 January 2025

The main objective of this paper is to examine the impact of ESG management on corporate performance by focusing on board characteristics. To this end, this study uses financial data and empirical panel data of Fortune 300 firms from 2008 to 2021 and...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,965 Views
22 Pages

26 May 2025

This study aims to investigate the impact of board size on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) controversies using data from Chinese-listed companies during 2007–2022. In addition, we explore the moderating effects of female participati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Administration in Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
10,367 Views
18 Pages

Corporate Governance Compliance in Banking Industry: The Role of the Board

  • Rudi Zulfikar,
  • Niki Lukviarman,
  • Djoko Suhardjanto,
  • Tubagus Ismail and ,
  • Kurniasih Dwi Astuti and
  • Meutia Meutia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This study seeks to supply empirical evidence for how board characteristics influence corporate governance compliance in the Indonesian banking industry. Corporate governance compliance level represents a company’s actions to fulfill regulatory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,527 Views
17 Pages

14 November 2022

This study investigates the influence of board chairman characteristics on the level of real earnings management for listed firms with the lowest positive earnings on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia. Based on the Ordinary Least Square regression, t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Strategic Management and Corporate Social Responsibility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,322 Views
22 Pages

In recent years, businesses have faced increasing pressure from consumers, investors, and regulators to prioritize sustainability, ethics, and transparency. Consequently, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is growing and companies are integrating...

(This article belongs to the Section Banking and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,188 Views
20 Pages

The Impact of Board Gender Diversity on European Firms’ Performance: The Moderating Role of Liquidity

  • Robert Gharios,
  • Antoine B. Awad,
  • Bashar Abu Khalaf and
  • Lena A. Seissian

This study examines how board gender diversity affects listed non-financial European companies’ financial performance. Data from the Refinitiv Eikon Platform—LSEG and World Bank databases was used to complete the analysis. The total sampl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Featured Papers in Corporate Finance and Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
12,883 Views
19 Pages

Using a Board Game to Teach about Sustainable Development

  • Jen-Che Tsai,
  • Shiang-Yao Liu,
  • Chun-Yen Chang and
  • Shih-Yeh Chen

28 April 2021

Examining and developing courses of education for sustainable development (ESD) is the goal of this study. Building on the theory of game-based learning, this study develops teaching strategies that employ board games for ESD. The design context of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from Eurasian Conference on Educational Innovation 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,094 Views
14 Pages

Synthesis of Magnetic Wood Fiber Board and Corresponding Multi-Layer Magnetic Composite Board, with Electromagnetic Wave Absorbing Properties

  • Zhichao Lou,
  • Yao Zhang,
  • Ming Zhou,
  • He Han and ,
  • Jiabin Cai,
  • Lintian Yang,
  • Chenglong Yuan and
  • Yanjun Li
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

With the rapid growth in the use of wireless electronic devices, society urgently needs electromagnetic wave (EMW) absorbing material with light weight, thin thickness, wide effective absorbing band width, and strong absorption capacity. Herein, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,374 Views
17 Pages

Does a Foreign Board Improve Corporate Social Responsibility?

  • Doddy Setiawan,
  • Rayenda Khresna Brahmana,
  • Andi Asrihapsari and
  • Siti Maisaroh

17 October 2021

This study examines the effect of foreign boards on corporate social responsibility, exploring the issues of two-tier board systems (boards of directors and boards of commissioners). Using data for manufacturing firms listed on the Indonesia Stock Ex...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Corporate Finance Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,062 Views
32 Pages

Board Composition and Integrated Reporting Quality: The Moderating Role of Firm Performance

  • James Ako Oben,
  • Chisinga Ngonidzashe Chikutuma and
  • Mbalenhle Khatlisi

This study examines the relationship between board composition and integrated reporting quality (IRQ) and tests whether firm performance moderates this relationship. Using content analysis, IRQ is measured through a disclosure index based on the 2021...

(This article belongs to the Section Business and Entrepreneurship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
J. Risk Financ. Manag.2026, 19(11), 909;https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm19110909 
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9 November 2026

Does longer board tenure improve corporate environmental oversight through accumulated experience or reinforce strategic inertia? Using 21,996 firm-year observations from 2739 U.S. listed firms over 2002–2023, we examine the association between...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Finance and Capital Market)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,548 Views
16 Pages

Board Gender Diversity and Banks Profitability for Business Viability: Evidence from Serbia

  • Stefan Milojević,
  • Marko Milašinović,
  • Aleksandra Mitrović,
  • Jasmina Ognjanović and ,
  • Jelena Raičević,
  • Nebojša Zdravković,
  • Snežana Knežević and
  • Malči Grivec
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

4 July 2023

As an important topic in the field of corporate governance, the influence of the board of directors’ characteristics on the profitability of corporations is examined here. This paper examines the influence of the board of directors’ and c...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
614 Views
19 Pages

Do Board Characteristics Determine Litigation Risk? Evidence from the Jordanian Banking Industry

  • Hashem Alshurafat,
  • Mohammed Alzahrane,
  • Omar Arabiat and
  • Randa Al-Tayan

29 June 2026

This paper investigates how corporate governance can impact the litigation risk of banks with reference to the board characteristics of the Jordanian banking industry. With a dataset of 14 of the banks listed on the Amman Stock Exchange between the y...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,173 Views
10 Pages

4 May 2022

When the board provides quality monitoring and advising to corporate managers, firms can achieve their goal, and so firm value increases. Board diversity is one of the issues that can affect the board effectiveness through influencing the quality of...

(This article belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
  • Entry
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,310 Views
8 Pages

Director Interlocks: Information Transfer in Board Networks

  • Ziqi Ma,
  • Linna Shi,
  • Katherine (Kexin) Yu and
  • Nan Zhou

10 January 2024

Director interlocks occur when a board member or an executive of a firm sits on the board of directors of another firm. As an essential social network application in the business world, interlocking directorates are documented to be non-trivial from...

(This article belongs to the Collection Encyclopedia of Social Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
12,317 Views
28 Pages

12 August 2025

This study empirically investigates the relationship between board composition, focusing on board size and board independence, and firm performance. It further examines how national governance quality moderates this relationship. Using a panel datase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,163 Views
18 Pages

Performance and Board Diversity: A Practical AI Perspective

  • Lee-Wen Yang,
  • Thi Thanh Binh Nguyen and
  • Wei-Ju Young

The face of corporate governance is changing as new technologies in the scope of artificial intelligence and data analytics are used to make better future-oriented decisions on performance management. This study attempts to provide empirical results...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Applications and Big Data Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,901 Views
14 Pages

Evaluation of the Laboratory Degradation Performance of a Straw Drainage Board

  • Runtian Zhu,
  • Yinqiang Su,
  • Cankun Wu,
  • Wei Yuan and
  • Yongfeng Deng

7 December 2022

Plastic drainage boards are installed into the foundation as vertical drainage channels in vacuum preloading projects. After construction, numerous plastic drainage boards are left in the foundation, causing not only white pollution but also potentia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art of Geosynthetic Engineering for Sustainable Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,612 Views
16 Pages

This study empirically analyzes the relationship between Vietnamese firms’ earnings management, board characteristics, and ownership structures. I use board size and the proportion of outside directors to reflect board characteristics, and the owners...

(This article belongs to the Section Business and Entrepreneurship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,309 Views
9 Pages

Possibilities of reduction of the on-board energy for an innovative subway

  • A-L. Allègre,
  • P. Barrade,
  • P. Delarue,
  • A. Bouscayrol and ,
  • E. Chattot and
  • S. El-Fassi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

An innovative subway has been proposed using supercapacitors as energy source. In this paper, are presented different possibilities to reduce on-board stored energy in order to downsize the on-board energy storage subsystem. Special attention is paid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,049 Views
9 Pages

Do Board Characteristics Matter for Growth Firms? Evidence from China

  • Qiuwei Li,
  • Wei Zhou,
  • Hui Zhou and
  • Jiaxuan Chen

Previous research on the effect of board characteristics mostly examines established firms. This raises the question of whether the findings from the board characteristics literature are applicable to rapidly growing enterprises, as their corporate g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Governance and Its Impact on Accounting and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
116 Citations
11,852 Views
25 Pages

26 September 2022

There is an evolving trend of pursuing the transfer to sustainable development. Owing to this trend, and alongside the increasing monitoring by society, companies are progressively considering this new position in the capital market. Corporate govern...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,170 Views
11 Pages

Diversity of the Board of Directors and Financial Performance of the Firms

  • Felipe Arenas-Torres,
  • Miguel Bustamante-Ubilla and
  • Roberto Campos-Troncoso

22 October 2021

The diversity of the board of directors continues to be a matter of concern for investors, regulators, and the general public. In this sense, the purpose of the research presented was to identify whether there is a positive and significant impact bet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Social Enterprises Governance and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
260 Views
34 Pages

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure may have different valuation relevance across ESG pillars and governance contexts. This study examines the associations between environmental, social, and governance disclosure and firm value and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Finance and Corporate Responsibility)
  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,304 Views
6 Pages

Multidisciplinary tumor boards are an opportunity for radiologists to demonstrate value to referring clinicians, the hospital, and patients. Multidisciplinary tumor boards are commonly utilized in academic institutions, but may not be readily availab...

(This article belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,092 Views
18 Pages

22 April 2020

The study of a causal interpretation of board and firm characteristics, that is, a hidden dependence relationship on the causal inference among board and firm characteristics, is an important but unaddressed issue in the corporate governance literatu...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,127 Views
27 Pages

16 March 2021

In this study, we examine whether and to what extent affiliated bankers on board may affect firms’ corporate social performance. Using a propensity score-matched sample from 2002 to 2016, we find that board directors from affiliated banks exert signi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Harnessing Sustainability to Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,963 Views
18 Pages

The Influence of Earnings Management and Board Characteristics on Company Efficiency

  • Hsueh-Li Huang,
  • Lien-Wen Liang,
  • Hai-Yen Chang and
  • Hsiu-Yuan Hsu

21 October 2021

Earnings management is a means by which managers manipulate earnings to conceal the true performance of a company. The characteristics of the board of directors can also influence firm performance. This study applies data envelopment analysis (DEA) a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business Performance and Sustainable Innovation Strategies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
1,339 Views
5 Pages

1 January 2008

The Ontario Cancer Research Ethics Board (ocreb) has made its mark within Ontario as a successful, centralized, oncology-specific research ethics board. As such, ocreb has proven invaluable to principal investigators, sponsors, and study participants...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,375 Views
27 Pages

4 September 2019

Green governance is the only way to build a community for humankind with a shared future. Existing research has concentrated more on the macro level rather than the micro level of green governance—the power hierarchy of the governance subjects...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in 2nd IT Revolution with Dynamic Open Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,932 Views
18 Pages

3 November 2022

In this study, we investigate the effect of board gender diversity on the decision to disclose carbon emissions voluntarily. Using an international sample consisting of 22,841 firm-year observations from 38 countries for the period 2010–2019, w...

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