| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Board of Director Diversity and Firm Financial Performance | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2003 | 1,199 |
| 2 | The Gender and Ethnic Diversity of US Boards and Board Committees and Firm Financial Performance | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2010 | 1,134 |
| 3 | Women Directors on Corporate Boards: A Review and Research Agenda | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2009 | 987 |
| 4 | Does female board representation influence firm performance? The Danish evidence | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2007 | 742 |
| 5 | The Contribution of Women on Boards of Directors: Going beyond the Surface | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2010 | 711 |
| 6 | Board Composition and Corporate Performance: how the Australian experience informs contrasting theories of corporate governance | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2003 | 670 |
| 7 | Factors Influencing Voluntary Corporate Disclosure by Kenyan Companies | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2006 | 603 |
| 8 | Board Structure and Firm Performance: Evidence from India's Top Companies | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2009 | 582 |
| 9 | Are Socially Responsible Managers Really Ethical? Exploring the Relationship Between Earnings Management and Corporate Social Responsibility | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2008 | 578 |
| 10 | Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Synergies and Interrelationships | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2008 | 527 |
| 11 | Corporate Governance and Board Composition: diversity and independence of Australian boards | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2007 | 463 |
| 12 | Stewardship Theory and Board Structure: a contingency approach | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 1998 | 410 |
| 13 | Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility: a comparative analysis of the UK and the US* | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2006 | 410 |
| 14 | Corporate Governance and Performance in Socially Responsible Corporations: New Empirical Insights from a Neo‐Institutional Framework | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2013 | 386 |
| 15 | Corporate Boards in OECD Countries: size, composition, functioning and effectiveness | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2005 | 372 |
| 16 | Women on Boards of Directors and Corporate Social Performance: A Meta‐Analysis | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2016 | 370 |
| 17 | Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): The Moderating Roles of Attainment Discrepancy and Organization Slack | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2011 | 348 |
| 18 | Board Dynamics and the Influence of Professional Background, Gender and Ethnic Diversity of Directors | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2003 | 346 |
| 19 | Private vs State Ownership and Earnings Management: evidence from Chinese listed companies | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2007 | 332 |
| 20 | Codes of Good Governance | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2009 | 329 |
| 21 | Can Directors Impact Performance? A case‐based test of three theories of corporate governance | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2007 | 314 |
| 22 | Looking Inside the Black Box: The Effect of Corporate Governance on Corporate Social Responsibility | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2016 | 305 |
| 23 | Board Structure, Ownership, and Voluntary Disclosure in Ireland | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2008 | 298 |
| 24 | A Taxonomy of Systems of Corporate Governance | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 1999 | 292 |
| 25 | Boards of Directors' Contribution to Strategy: A Literature Review and Research Agenda | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2009 | 286 |
| 26 | The Link Between Earnings Timeliness, Earnings Conservatism and Board Composition: evidence from the UK | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2004 | 283 |
| 27 | Governance for Sustainability | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2006 | 282 |
| 28 | Nationality and Gender Diversity on Swiss Corporate Boards | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2007 | 276 |
| 29 | Corporate Governance, Family Ownership and Firm Value: the Canadian evidence | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2005 | 274 |
| 30 | Is Corporate Sustainability a Value-Increasing Strategy for Business? | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2007 | 274 |
| 31 | Why So Few Women Directors in Top UK Boardrooms? Evidence and Theoretical Explanations | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2004 | 272 |
| 32 | Shareholding Versus Stakeholding: a critical review of corporate governance | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2004 | 259 |
| 33 | Why Adopt Codes of Good Governance? A Comparison of Institutional and Efficiency Perspectives | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2008 | 256 |
| 34 | Corporate Governance and Performance in the Wake of the Financial Crisis: Evidence from US Commercial Banks | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2011 | 254 |
| 35 | Gender and Ethnic Diversity Among UK Corporate Boards | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2007 | 248 |
| 36 | Boards and Company Performance - Research Challenges the Conventional Wisdom | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 1994 | 239 |
| 37 | Toward a Behavioral Theory of Boards and Corporate Governance | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2009 | 235 |
| 38 | Evaluating Boards of Directors: what constitutes a good corporate board? | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2004 | 230 |
| 39 | The Defects of Stakeholder Theory | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 1997 | 227 |
| 40 | Corporate Governance and Financial Distress: evidence from Taiwan | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2004 | 226 |
| 41 | Board Diversity: Moving the Field Forward | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2015 | 219 |
| 42 | Does CEO Duality Really Affect Corporate Performance? | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2007 | 218 |
| 43 | Corporate Governance: Its scope, concerns and theories | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 1997 | 217 |
| 44 | Corporate Governance and Earnings Management: A Meta‐Analysis | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2009 | 211 |
| 45 | National Adoption of International Accounting Standards: An Institutional Perspective | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2010 | 211 |
| 46 | Business Group Affiliation, Firm Governance, and Firm Performance: Evidence from China and India | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2009 | 207 |
| 47 | CSR Communication Intensity in Chinese and Indian Multinational Companies | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2009 | 204 |
| 48 | The Effects of Board Composition and Board Size on the Informativeness of Annual Accounting Earnings | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2006 | 203 |
| 49 | Islamic Financial Institutions and Corporate Governance: New Insights for Agency Theory | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2009 | 201 |
| 50 | A typology of the theories of the roles of governing boards | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 1998 | 197 |
