Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the economic determinants of compensation committee quality. Design/methodology/approach – Sample firms were selected from the IRRC Directors' database. Compensation committee quality is measured as the factor score from a principal...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on high growth firms’ corporate governance. Specially, the study examines whether there is a negative impact of SOX on the interactive effect of board independence and investment opportunity set on...

Since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted in U.S., there has been a general tendency to globally harmonize regulations and practices of board governance. The purpose of this study is to compare among countries how well the board of directors constrains earnings management. Using a sample of firms...