Cet article s’intéresse à l’influence des caractéristiques des dirigeants de 135 sociétés françaises cotées sur la performance économique à long terme. Plus précisément, il cherche à vérifier si les élites, c’est-à-dire les dirigeants issus de grandes écoles d’ingénieur...

Representation of women on boards is getting more and more attention these recent years (Hillman, Shropshire, & Cannella, 2007; Nielsen & Huse, 2010), all the more as recent influence by the legislator accelerates the pace of change. Indeed, in France, a new law adopted in January 2011 stated that...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the recent evolution of the regulation of statutory auditing since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the USA by comparing the regulatory structures for auditing in the USA, France and Canada. Design/methodology/approach – Using publicly...