Journal of Corporate Finance 

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the board of directors, the audit committee, and the executive committee in preventing earnings management was examined, and they concluded that board and audit committee activity and their members' financial sophistication may be important factors in constraining the propensity of managers to engage in earnings management.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relation between the ownership structure and the performance of corporations if ownership is made multi-dimensional and also is treated as an endogenous variable, and they found no statistically significant relation between ownership structures and firm performance.

TL;DR: In this article, a study of firm-level corporate governance practices across emerging markets, and a greater understanding of the environments under which corporate governance matters more is provided, and the authors provide evidence showing that firms can partially compensate for ineffective laws, and enforcement by establishing good governance, and providing credible investor protection.

TL;DR: This article investigated fine-grained measures of family business in the U.S. public companies and found that businesses with a lone founder outperformed those with multiple family members as major owners or managers.