Open Workshop: Corporate governance in entrepreneurial firms – a systematic review and research agenda
Friday, March 15, 2019, 15:00 – 17:00
SSE Riga, Room A70
The aim of the Open Workshop Series in Business and Management Studies is to promote top-quality academic and applied research in various fields of the social sciences. This is a unique opportunity for sharing knowledge and networking with local and international community members.
Speaker: Dr Timurs Umans, Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden
This systematic review covers the extant literature on corporate governance in entrepreneurial firms. Using a sample of 137 research papers published from pre-1990 through June 2018 in 60 journals, we categorize outlets, research methods (quantitative, qualitative, review, and non-empirical), theoretical perspectives, and research questions, highlighting key patterns. We then summarize the concepts under study in the sample literature, and the geographical sources and model specification of quantitative empirical studies. The conclusion highlights the quite fragmented nature of the field and the substantial knowledge gaps, and then proposes an actionable agenda for future research in terms of theories, research questions, research settings, and research designs. In particular, we describe the need to explore how corporate governance mechanisms interact with one another and affect firm outcomes, by applying novel theoretical perspectives and methods that could provide a better understanding of entrepreneurial firms’ functioning.
Dr Timurs Umans, was born in Riga and spent most of his adult life in Sweden. Timurs is a Senior Associate Professor of Accounting and Management Control at Jönköping International Business School, Sweden. His primary research interests circle around governance, auditing and management control with focus on ownership. His recent projects deal with governance of small firms and new ventures, governance of municipal corporations and governance of health care organizations. Timurs’ is also involved in number of projects dealing with cultural diversity in teams with specific focus on different contingency aspects that either make these teams perform better or worse. Examples of these projects are: cultural diversity in top management team in Swedish stock listed corporation, cultural diversity in multiprofessional health care teams, cultural diversity in students’ teams, cultural diversity in small firm’s founder teams and boards and cultural diversity in audit teams. Most of the research projects Timurs is/was involved in are performed in cooperation with an industry and are both research and practice oriented.
Timurs work has been published in the top journals in accounting, governance, entrepreneurship and public management such as Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Corporate Governance International Review, Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Small Business Economics, Public Management Review. Since 2017, Timurs is an Associate Editor of Baltic Journal of Management
Discussion moderated by Dr. Arnis Sauka.
Attendance is free of charge.
Please sign up for the seminar, writing to arnis.sauka@sseriga.edu by March 13, 2019.
The aim of the SSE Riga Open Workshop Series is to:
- Foster cooperation between business and management researchers, practitioners and policy makers, as well as
- To promote academic and applied research in various fields of the social sciences, focusing on but not limited to entrepreneurship, marketing, management, public administration and strategy.
Organised by the Centre for Sustainable Business at SSE Riga.
