2015 - Copenhagen | Lori Verstegen Ryan & Ann K. Buchholtz | A Foundation of Trust: Comparing Corporate Governance Theories | Natasha Burns, Anna Kapalczynski, & John K. Wald | Director Compensation: An International Comparison |
2016 - Boston | Razvan Lungenau & Edward J. Zajac | Ambidextrous board members and their outsized influence on firm strategy | | |
2017 - Rome | Aleksandra Gregoric & Thomas Poulsen | The Power of Non-Controlling Stake: Below Parity Representation of Employees on Corporate Boards | Michael Carney, Saul Estrin, Zhixiang Liang, & Daniel Shapiro | National Institutional Systems, Foreign Ownership and Firm Performance: The Case of Understudied Countries |
2018 - Shanghai | Han Jiang, Brian Connelly, Jun Xia, & Shuji Bao | Cooking the Books or Sleeping Around? Executive Social Capital in the Wake of a Scandal | Ajay Bhaskarabhatla & Rajani Singh | Board Interlocks with Shell Companies and Firm Value: Evidence from Director Disqualifications in India |
2019 - Colchester | Eduardo Schiehll, Luiz Ricardo Kabbach de Castro, Henrique Castro Martins, & Paulo Rento Soares Terra | When is Protection Over-Protection? Symmetric Versus Asymmetric Property Rights | Ruth Mateos de Cabo, Ricardo Gimeno, Pilar Grau, & Patricia Gabaldón | Being a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond. The effects of gender quota vs. corporate governance codes. |
2020 - Norfolk (Virtual) | Michael Witt, Stav Fainshmidt, & Ruth Aguilera | Our Board, Our Rules: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Corporate Governance Deviance | Matheus de Sena Dall'Agnol & Luiz Ricardo Kabbach de Castro | Codes of Ethics Effectiveness: A Study of Legalistic versus Behavioral Codes |
2021 - Groningen | Paul Decaire & Denis Sosyura | CEO Pet Projects | Mark Desjardine, Wei Shi, & Zhihui Sun | Different Shades: The Effects of Hedge Fund Activism and Corporate Shareholder Activism on Competitive Actions |
2022 - Miami | Mario Daniele Amore | Neighborhood CEOs | Jonas Heese & Joseph Pacelli | Does information technology reduce corporate misconduct? |
2023 - Madrid | Charlotte Antoons, Eddy Cardinaels, & Liesbeth Bruynseels | ESG contracting and imitation behavior: Does the channel via which imitation arises matter? | Justin Chircop, Monika Tarsalewska, & Agnieszka Trzeciakiewicz | CEO Risk Taking Equity Incentives and Workplace Misconduct |