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Corporate board committees and corporate outcomes: an international systematic literature review and agenda for future research

Corporate board committees and corporate outcomes: an international systematic literature review and agenda for future research
Corporate board committees and corporate outcomes: an international systematic literature review and agenda for future research

This paper comprehensively reviews the current body of international accounting literature regarding advisory/monitoring committees and corporate outcomes. Specifically, it synthesizes, appraises, and extends current knowledge on the (a) theoretical (i.e., economic, accounting/corporate governance, sociological and socio-psychological) perspectives and (b) empirical evidence of the observable and less visible attributes at both the individual and committee levels and their link with a wide range (financial/non-financial) of corporate outcomes. Using the systematic literature review method, 304 articles from 59 journals in the fields of accounting and finance that were published between January 1992 and December 2018 are reviewed. The main findings are as follows. First and theoretically, agency theory is the most dominant applied theory/studies with no application of theory at all (descriptive), while the application of integrated theoretical frameworks is lacking in the reviewed articles. Secondly, the existing empirical evidence focusses excessively on (a) monitoring instead of advisory committees and (b) observable rather than less visible committee attributes. Thirdly, scarcity of cross-country studies along with methodological limitations relating to measurement inconsistencies, insufficiency of variables, and dominance of quantitative studies, among others, are identified. Finally, promising future research avenues are outlined.

Accounting, advisory and monitoring roles, corporate board subcommittees, corporate governance, corporate outcomes
0020-7063
Alhossini, Mohammed Abdulaziz M
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Ntim, Collins
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Alhossini, Mohammed Abdulaziz M, Ntim, Collins and Zalata, Alaa (2021) Corporate board committees and corporate outcomes: an international systematic literature review and agenda for future research. The International Journal of Accounting, [2150001]. (doi:10.1142/S1094406021500013).

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This paper comprehensively reviews the current body of international accounting literature regarding advisory/monitoring committees and corporate outcomes. Specifically, it synthesizes, appraises, and extends current knowledge on the (a) theoretical (i.e., economic, accounting/corporate governance, sociological and socio-psychological) perspectives and (b) empirical evidence of the observable and less visible attributes at both the individual and committee levels and their link with a wide range (financial/non-financial) of corporate outcomes. Using the systematic literature review method, 304 articles from 59 journals in the fields of accounting and finance that were published between January 1992 and December 2018 are reviewed. The main findings are as follows. First and theoretically, agency theory is the most dominant applied theory/studies with no application of theory at all (descriptive), while the application of integrated theoretical frameworks is lacking in the reviewed articles. Secondly, the existing empirical evidence focusses excessively on (a) monitoring instead of advisory committees and (b) observable rather than less visible committee attributes. Thirdly, scarcity of cross-country studies along with methodological limitations relating to measurement inconsistencies, insufficiency of variables, and dominance of quantitative studies, among others, are identified. Finally, promising future research avenues are outlined.

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Accepted/In Press date: 30 May 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 27 January 2021
Published date: March 2021
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Board of Trustees, Vernon K. Zimmerman Center, University of Illinois.
Keywords: Accounting, advisory and monitoring roles, corporate board subcommittees, corporate governance, corporate outcomes

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Local EPrints ID: 441095
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/441095
ISSN: 0020-7063
PURE UUID: 55eda29f-98a8-4b9c-bbe6-78f1db85027a
ORCID for Mohammed Abdulaziz M Alhossini: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8523-3265
ORCID for Collins Ntim: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1042-4056
ORCID for Alaa Zalata: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2018-4313

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Author: Mohammed Abdulaziz M Alhossini ORCID iD
Author: Collins Ntim ORCID iD
Author: Alaa Zalata ORCID iD

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