Emerging cross-disciplinary themes in corporate governance research

Corporate governance as a field is witnessing an intellectual evolution, where the traditional theoretical paradigms and the established research questions genuinely coexist with and are fruitfully stimulated by fresh lines of inquiry. This mutually supportive coexistence is nurturing an original and cross-fertilizing debate, which is both revisiting the mainstream approaches and revealing the diversified nature of the themes surfacing the research agenda. Also, the literature on corporate governance is increasingly consolidating the conversations with other fields, such as the finance, strategic management, and organizational behavior fields. This process is inspiring an ongoing inter-disciplinary dialogue. This issue of Corporate Board: Role, Duties and Composition represents a striking example of such a theoretical and thematic integration at the intersection of multiple fields.