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Author: Eoin McLaughlin

Dual Role Executives and Corporate Membership of Emission Trading Schemes: The Role of Board Structure

Dual Role Executives and Corporate Membership of Emission Trading Schemes: The Role of Board Structure

Posted on 12 November 2025

In our recent study in Business Strategy and the Environment, we sought to establish the influence of CEO power on the decision to take part in an emissions trading scheme (ETS). We use CEO duality, i.e., whether the CEO is also the chairman of the board as our proxy for CEO power. Duality is almost extinct […]


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Generational Shifts and Changing Identities of Chinese Women Accountants Outside Public Accounting

Generational Shifts and Changing Identities of Chinese Women Accountants Outside Public Accounting

Posted on 23 September 2025

What does it mean to be a woman accountant in China today? And how has that meaning changed across generations? These are the questions that drove our new paper, Generational Shifts and Changing Identities of Chinese Women Accountants Outside Public Accounting, published in The Accounting Review. While much of the research on gender and the […]


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