Working Paper
Do Wealth Managers understand Codes of Conduct and their ethical dilemmas? Lessons from an online survey
How do wealth managers understand and comply with the social norms embedded in banks’ codes of conduct (CoC) and how do they cope with ethical dilemmas?...
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Listed Companies' Engagement with Diversity: A Multi-Jurisdictional Study of Annual Report Disclosures
The paper reports the findings of a multi-jurisdictional study on companies? reporting of diversity practices at board level and below. It involved a...
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The Belgian struggle for corporate governance improvements
Belgium did not experience major governance collapses in the nineties. However, the country must not but envied. The corporate governance debate...
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Corporate Governance and Banks: How justified is the match?
Banks and bank governance are different. We critically assess the arguments used to pervade these divergences in operational activities. We also...
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The Purposive Transformation of Corporate Law
What is the purpose of a corporation? This fundamental question is as old as corporate law itself and traditionally it is asked with reference to the...
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Barriers to Boardrooms
Boardroom diversity policies link societal and corporate governance objectives. To understand whether they can meet both objectives, we argue one...
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Examining the Wates Principles for Large Private Companies as a Social Contract for Business-Society Relations
In December 2018, a Corporate Governance Code aimed at large private companies was unveiled, the culmination of an industry-led effort in producing a...
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Self-commitments and the Binding Force of Self-regulation with Respect to Third Parties in Germany
Codes of conduct are a well-accepted feature of European corporate governance. Listed corporations are obliged to annually state their compliance...
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