Neel corporate governance center
research
Through the perspectives of accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, information management, marketing, and law, our research addresses timely topics in corporate governance, including the audit process, executive compensation, board structure and firm performance.
Neel corporate governance center
Research topics
Audit
Audit & Risk Management
Board of Directors
Compensation
Corporate Governance
Cybersecurity
Executive Characteristics
Insider Trading and Securities Fraud
Institutional Investors
Labor and Finance
Labor Market for Executives and Directors
Ownership Structure & Investors
Regulatory Oversight
Shareholder Activism, Shareholder Voting and Proxy Advisors
Sustainability
Research Shows Danger to CEOs when Firms Overpay, or Underpay, Taxes
Faculty Research by James Chyz, assistant professor of Accounting and Information Management, shows a correlation between CEO turnover and whether firms pay more, or less, taxes than their peers.
Audit Committee: The Kitchen Sink of the Board
The role of the audit committee has changed significantly since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), with many audit committees now overseeing a variety of emerging risks and balancing an ever-increasing workload. In seeking to understand more about audit committees’ evolving responsibilities, proxy disclosure strategies and self-evaluation processes, the Neel Center partnered with the Center for Audit Quality and researchers from the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. Our findings should be of interest to current board members, investors and regulators of governance-related disclosures.
Neel corporate governance center
Center Updates
Neel Corporate Governance Center Welcomes Four New Research Fellows
Tingting Liu, Austin Starkweather, Tomer Stein and Daniel Weagley are the latest UT faculty members to join the center.
Haslam Faculty Recognized for Professional Promise
