New issue of the Corporate Governance and Organizational Behavior Review journal

The editorial team of Virtus Interpress is happy to publish the new issue of the journal Corporate Governance and Organizational Behavior Review (volume 7, issue 3).

The seventeen papers in this issue deal with different issues, namely, corporate governance, top management team, firm performance, board diversity, fraud motivation and protection, diversity management, gender gap, oil price volatility, changes in the exchange rate, short-term deposit rate, green intellectual capital, green organizational culture, corporate sustainability, productivity, workplace, sustainable performance, green business practices, green innovation, financial distress, machine learning, electronic tax, financial reporting quality, poverty, informal economy, workplace harassment, work outcomes, government assistance, SMEs, business operation, entrepreneurs, digital platform, internal audit, risk management, agency problem, conflict of interests, management power, organizational storytelling, narrative learning theory, integrity, independent commissioners, etc.

Ebrahim Mohammed Al-Matari, Mahfoudh Hussein Mgammal, Talal Fawzi Alruwaili, Hasnah Kamardin, and Nabil Ahmed Mareai Senan investigate the connection between top management characteristics and financial company performance.

Mariam Yaqoub, Shaikha Hamad, Hafsa Alhammadi, Walaa Wahid ElKelish, Yousif Abdelbagi Abdalla, and Atia Hussain explore accounting fraud motivation, protection procedures, and the impact on firms’ performance from the perspective of external auditors.

The paper by Giuseppe Calabrese, Rosario Bianco, and Elaheh Anjomrouz focuses attention on the specific issues of gender diversity in the workplace. Particularly, the analysis concern women’s access to the workplace and the related education and training paths, economic treatment, career opportunities, and the possibility of having in charge leadership roles in organizations, the gender gap is explored by presenting a snapshot of the situation in the European Union (EU) and Italy, also considering the consequences of the COVID 19 pandemic.

To shed light on the uninterrupted fluctuations in oil prices David Umoru, Solomon Edem Effiong, Salisu Shehu Umar, Enyinna Okpara, Malachy Ashywel Ugbaka, Christopher Awa Otu, Francis Ejime Ofie, Anna Nuhu Tizhe, and Anthony Aziegbemin Ekeoba empirically estimated the effect of changes in exchange rates and oil prices on stock returns in developing countries using the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) methodology.

Henny Hendarjanti and Lenny Christina Nawangsari analyze how green intellectual capital (GIC), green organization culture (GOC), and green information technology and system (GIT) impact corporate sustainability (CS) through green competitive advantage (GCA) with green innovation (GI) as an intervening variable.

The purpose of the study by Francis Ezieshi Monyei, Pamela Nkechi Ezinwa, Emmanuel Kalu Agbaeze, Wilfred Isioma Ukpere, Charles Ogechukwu Ugbam, and Vitalis Ndu is to examine the impact of workplace conflict on employee productivity in the healthcare industry.

Rabiaal Adawiyah Shazali, Amrizah Kamaluddin, Shukriah Sa’ad, and Muhammad Khalique produce a GIC model for hotels to practice in their daily operation to enhance their performance.

Hong Hanh Ha, Ngoc Hung Dang, and Manh Dung Tran employ machine learning algorithms to measure the probability of financial distress of listed firms on the Vietnam Stock Exchange by using a dataset with 4,936 observations from 2009 to 2020.

Frank Mbeh Attah, Thelma Aya Abang, John Thompson Okpa, Nnana Okoi Ofem, Felicia Agbor-Obun Dan, Ngozi Christina Nwadike, Umo Antigha Bassey, Esther Patrick Archibong, Abayomi Akintola, and Angela Ahowbewon Ajimase examine the extent to which working conditions affect the performance of healthcare providers.

Thi Minh Phuong Nguyen analyzes the factors and their influence on the satisfaction of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using eTax services in Vietnam.

Peny Cahaya Azwari, Naz’aina, Qadariah Barkah, Ayke Nuraliati, Ahmad Taufik, Mulyani Rizki, and Ninik Mulyani verify the magnitude of the influence of organizational culture on the quality of financial reporting and its impact on good governance in zakat bodies and institutions in Indonesia.

Rana AlBahsh examines the effect of workplace harassment and domestic violence on organization outcomes in Jordan within poor communities working in the informal economy.

The purpose of the study by Nik Puteri Nur Anis Noor Azmi, Nadiah Abd Hamid, Zarinah Abdul Rasit, Saifulrizan Norizan, and Nor Atikah Shafai is to explore the success factors in sustaining the business operation, specifically, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Muthyaah Mohd Jamil, Nor Hafizah Zainal Abidin, and Norhayati Mohd Alwi explore how internal auditors responded to environmental auditing practices (EAP).

Dachen Sheng and Heather Montgomery, in their research, investigate the relationship between audits, concentrated managerial power, and firm performance in the Chinese manufacturing industry.

Naser Khdour, Roberta Fenech, Priya Baguant, and Fazli Wahid explore the use of organizational storytelling by a leading company in the telecommunications sector in the Middle East.

Meiryani, Mochammad Fahlevi, Ahmad Ilham Robbani, Agustinus Winoto, Gazali Salim, Agung Purnomo, and Lusianah compile and analyze the empirical evidence to empirically explore, from an Indonesian perspective, how corporate governance, internal audit quality, and external pressures interact to affect the integrity of financial statements.

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