Preface

**Section 3 Sustainability - Other Corporate Manifestations 157**

Chapter 9 **Earnings Quality and Market Performance in LATAM**

Chapter 10 **Universities as Corporate Entities: The Role of Social**

**Resource Management 159**

Ebru Aykan

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Chapter 8 **Gaining a Competitive Advantage through Green Human**

**Corporations: A Combined Agency and Cognitive Approach to**

**Investors' Perceptions of Managerial Information 177** Paolo Saona, Alesia Slocum, Laura Muro and Gonzalo Moreno

**Responsibility in Their Strategic Management 199** Elva L. Ramos‐Monge, Xavier Llinàs Audet and Jesús Barrena‐ As countries go through different phases of recovery following the financial crisis that shook the global financial system from 2007 through 2009 at its peak, confidence in corporate governance infrastructure and regulatory provisions has been the subject of critical re‐ views. These have over the past few years generated a lot of discourse within the academ‐ ia and in practice across nations, leading to several international and local corporate governance recommendations, amendments to corporate governance codes, and enhanced enforcement of existing codes.

While a growing body of literature has closely followed the crises from inception until gen‐ eral recovery, this edited book is timely in the sense that it attempts to shed more light on the current state of affairs of corporate governance mechanisms, codes, and their enforce‐ ment as well as novel issues arising. The ten constituent chapters authored by seasoned aca‐ demics with research interests in the areas of corporate governance, strategic management, and sustainable management practices provide up-to-date theoretical and empirical evi‐ dence of such corporate governance issues as corporate governance codes, corporate fraud, quality of earnings, corporate decision making, corporate social responsibility, sustainable management, and sustainable growth strategies.

This book is conveniently segmented into three logical sections. The first of which provides an introductory review of the field of corporate governance summarizing its salient research streams and sub-streams while providing an overview of the current state of the literature. The second section deals with corporate governance and how its intricate relationship to sustainable strategic decision-making processes continues to evolve. The third and last sec‐ tion examines other random but contemporary issues in corporate governance especially from a sustainability perspective.

> **Assoc. Prof. Dr. Okechukwu Lawrence Emeagwali** Girne American University, Cyprus

**Corporate Governance**
