Handbook of Research Methods for Corporate Governance

Edited by Nicola Cucari, Professor of Business Management, Department of Management, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, Sibel Yamak, formerly Professor of Management, Wolverhampton Business School, University of Wolverhampton, UK, Salvatore Esposito De Falco, Professor of Corporate Governance, Dept of Management, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and Bill Lee, Professor of Accounting, Management School, The University of Sheffield, UK

• Contents:Preface ixPART I NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE1 Employing historical methods and perspectives in corporate governance 2Duncan Connors and Andrew Perchard2 Understanding persistence and change in corporate governancerules, structures and practices in the situationist view of organisations 20Piero Mastroberardino and Giuseppe Calabrese3 Ethics and research methodology in the studying of corporategovernance 39Ivo De Loo and Hugo LetichePART II NEW RESEARCH DESIGNS4 Building new theories and a specific concept for boards ofdirectors: the practicholar research design 57Daniel Yar Hamidi and Wafa Khlif5 In search of relevance: exploring board work in hybridorganizations through an engaged scholarship approach 71Anup Banerjee6 Polymorphic research and boards of directors: let us makea better world together 90Morten Huse and Muthu de Silva7 Inclusive governance of partnerships for sustainability:methodological matters 110Mine Karatas-Ozkan, Linda Baines and Vadim GrinevichPART III NEW APPROACHES TO EMPIRICAL STUDIES8 Understanding persistence and change in corporate governancerules, structures and practices: from shareholder logic tostakeholder logic in the US model 129Piero Mastroberardino, Giuseppe Calabrese and Rosario Bianco9 Disentangling corporate social responsibility: the impactof corporate governance on the social and environmentalperformance of pharmaceutical and biotech firms 160Francesco Gangi, Eugenio D’Angelo and Lucia Michela Daniele10 Expanding discussions on incentives on corporate governance:employees’ compensation and organizational justice 199Luciana Iwashita-da-Silva and Sergio Bulgacov11 Using Q methodology to open the “black box” of corporategovernance 223Matthew Sorola12 Innovative application of digital technologies in rapid changephenomena in boards 245Fabio Oliveira, Nadeem Khan and Nada Korac-Kakabadse13 The methodological challenges to opening up the black box ofboardroom dynamics 268Amedeo Pugliese, Alessandro Zattoni, Bruno Buchetti, andFrancesca Romana Arduino14 Qualitative insights into corporate governance reform,management decision-making, and accounting performance:semi-structured interview evidence from Kuwait 291Abdullah Alajmi and Andrew C. Worthington15 Integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches in corporategovernance research 322Lei Chen, Jo Danbolt, John Holland and Bill LeeIndex 342

‘Getting to research corporate boards has never been easy. This book opens the door for researchers to understand board dynamics, rules, structures and contexts from different methodological perspectives, advancing and refining the findings on corporate governance research.’