How Far That Little Candle Throws His Beams! An Interview With Mats Isaksson

AbstractThis article adopts a policy-maker perspective on corporate governance, while exploring the role of academia in influencing corporate governance principles, the reasons for the boilerplate approach to governance rules typically adopted by most companies, and the reasons for a possible disconnect between research and corporate governance policies. The article ends with some key lessons about corporate governance and the future research agenda.Keywords Corporate governance, corporate culture, business and government/political economy, policy-makers, board of directors, agency theoryThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The authors received financial support for the research from the Centre for Business in Society, Faculty of Business and Law, Coventry University, United KigdomSource: Merendino, A. and. M. Goergen (2017), "How Far that Little Candle Throws His Beams! An Interview with Mats Isaksson", Journal of Management Inquiry, CC BY 4.0 licence.
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