Emmanuel Adegbite
- emmanuel.adegbite@jcu.edu.au
- Professor Governance and Management
- JCU Singapore Business School
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Professor Governance and Management
Biography
Emmanuel Adegbite is visiting Professor of Governance and Management. His published works on management accounting, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and corporate finance have been widely cited and have, in collaboration, secured $1million SGD. Recent awards include the Social Issues in Management Best Paper Award at the 2020 Conference of the Africa Academy of Management; nomination for the Best Paper in International Corporate Governance Award at the 2017 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, USA; the 'International Business Review Best Journal Paper of the Year Award' in 2016; the 'Celebrated Nigerian in Education Award UK' in 2016; and the Durham University award for Excellence in Research in 2014. He serves as Associate Editor for Business Ethics: A European Review (BEER) and is on the editorial boards of Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society and the International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility. Emmanuel works closely with business leaders and policy influencers in implementing good corporate governance standards, and in developing strategies for instrumental corporate social responsibility.
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Qiao, Lu; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Nguyen, Tam Huy (2025) 'Chief financial officer overconfidence and earnings management'. Accounting Forum, 49 (1):181-205. [DOI]
Morrison, E.A.; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Mangena, Musa; Kimani, Danson; Adu, Douglas A. (2025) 'The Benefits of Being Greener: Unravelling the Association Between Carbon Performance and Market Value'. Business Strategy and the Environment, 34 :4928-4957. [DOI]
Ashiru, Folajimi; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Ullah, Subbhan; Michael, Amir; Pyper, Neil (2025) 'The relevance of board diversity features in a weak institutional business environment'. Business Strategy and the Environment, 34 (5):5299-5316. [DOI]
Li, Jiaqi; Kim, Ja Ryong; Adegbite, Emmanuel (2025) 'Green credit policy and environmental outcomes in China: The critical role of local banks in pollution reduction and innovation'. International Journal of Finance & Economics, . [DOI]
Nakpodia, Franklin; Ashiru, Folajimi; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Koporcic, Nikolina (2025) 'Insidious Institutional Challenges of Mature MNE Subsidiaries Operating in Weak Institutional Markets: Corporate Governance to the Rescue'. Journal of International Management, . [DOI]
Chen, Szu-Yu; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Muthuri, Judy N.; Nguyen, Tam Huy (2025) 'The Influence of Ownership and Control on Corporate
Social Responsibility in East Asia'. Corporate Governance: An International Review, . [DOI]
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Kwabi, Frank Obenpong; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Ezeani, Ernest; Wonu, Chizindu; Mumbi, Henry (2024) 'Political uncertainty and stock market liquidity, size, and transaction cost: The role of institutional quality'. International Journal of Finance & Economics, 29 (2):2030-2048. [DOI]
Ashiru, Folajimi; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Frecknall-Hughes, Jane; Daodu, Olabisi (2024) 'Reliability of the audit committee in weak institutional environments: Evidence from Nigeria'. Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, 57 . [DOI]
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Ogunyemi, Titilayo; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Nakpodia, Franklin; Yekini, Kemi; Ayios, Angela (2024) 'Socially responsible purchasing (SRP) in the supply chain industry: Meanings and influences'. Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility, 34 :362-376. [DOI]
Qiao, L.; Adegbite, E.; Nguyen, T. (2024) 'CFO Overconfidence and Conditional Accounting Conservatism'. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 62 :1-37. [DOI]
Areneke, Geofry; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Tunyi, Abongeh; Hussain, Tanveer (2023) 'Female directorship and ethical corporate governance disclosure practices in highly patriarchal contexts'. Journal of Business Research, 164 :1-16. [DOI]
Nakpodia, Franklin; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Ashiru, Folajimi (2023) 'Corporate governance regulation: a practice theory perspective'. Accounting Forum, 47 (1):73-98. [DOI]
Ali, Hesham; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Nguyen, Tam Huy (2023) 'Corporate Governance and Corporate Political Responsibility'. Business & Society, 62 (7):1496-1540. [DOI]
Ashiru, F.; Adegbite, E.; Nakpodia, F. (2023) 'Nigerian professional investors' sensemaking of the impact of shareholder activism on corporate accountability'. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 42 (4). [DOI]
Ali, Hesham; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Nguyen, Tam Huy (2022) 'Ownership structure and political spending disclosure'. Accounting Forum, 46 (2):160-190. [DOI]
Areneke, Geofry; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Tunyi, Abongeh (2022) 'Transfer of corporate governance practices into weak emerging market environments by foreign institutional investors'. International Business Review, 31 (5). [DOI]
Lu, Qiao; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Nguyen, Tam Huy (2022) 'Chief financial officer overconfidence and stock price crash risk'. International Review of Financial Analysis, 84 . [DOI]
Ashiru, Folajimi; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Nakpodia, Franklin; Koporcic, Nikolina (2022) 'Relational governance mechanisms as enablers of dynamic capabilities in Nigerian SMEs during the COVID-19 crisis'. Industrial Marketing Management, 105 (August):18-32. [DOI]
Ferry, Laurence; Haslam, Jim; Green, Stuart; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Gebreiter, Florian (2021) 'Accounting colonization, emancipation and instrumental compliance in Nigeria'. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 77 . [DOI]
Capital structure revisited. Do crisis and competition matter in a Keiretsu corporate structure?
2021
Danso, Albert; Fosu, Samuel; Owusu-Agyei, Samuel; Ntim, Collins G.; Adegbite, Emmanuel (2021) 'Capital structure revisited. Do crisis and competition matter in a Keiretsu corporate structure?'. International Journal of Finance & Economics, 26 (4):5073-5092. [DOI]
Wang, Pengji; Kuah, Adrian T. H.; Lu, Qinye; Wong, Caroline; Thirumaran, K.; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Kendall, Wesley (2021) 'The impact of value perceptions on purchase intention of sustainable luxury brands in China and the UK'. Journal of Brand Management, 28 :325-346. [DOI]
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Sobhan, Abdus; Adegbite, Emmanuel (2021) 'Determinants of the quality of external board evaluation in the UK'. Corporate Governance: international journal of business in society, 21 (7):1293-1317. [DOI]
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Yekini, Kemi C.; Omoteso, Kamil; Adegbite, Emmanuel (2021) 'CSR communication research: a theoretical-cum methodological perspective from semiotics'. Business & Society, 60 (4):876-908. [DOI]
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Johnston, Andrew; Amaeshi, Kenneth; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Osuji, Onyeka (2021) 'Corporate social responsibility as obligated internalisation of social costs'. Journal of Business Ethics, 170 :39-52. [DOI]
Adegbite, Emmanuel; Amaeshi, Kenneth; Nakpodia, Franklin; Ferry, Laurence; Yekini, Kemi C. (2020) 'Corporate social responsibility strategies in Nigeria: a tinged shareholder model'. Corporate Governance: international journal of business in society, 20 (5):797-820. [DOI]
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Fosu, Samuel; Danso, Albert; Agyei-Boapeah, Henry; Ntim, Collins G.; Adegbite, Emmanuel (2020) 'Credit information sharing and loan default in developing countries: the moderating effect of banking market concentration and national governance quality'. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 55 :55-103. [DOI]
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Adegbite, Emmanuel; Daodu, Olabisi; Wood, Jacob (2020) 'Will Africapitalism work?'. Africa Journal of Management, 6 (4):419-434. [DOI]
Adegbite, Emmanuel; Guney, Yilmaz; Kwabi, Frank; Tahir, Suleiman (2019) 'Financial and corporate social performance in UK listed firms: the relevance of non-linearity and lag effects'. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 52 (1):105-158. [DOI]
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Kwabi, Frank O.; Boateng, Agyenim; Adegbite, Emmanuel (2019) 'International equity portfolio investment and enforcement of insider trading laws: a cross-country analysis'. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 53 (2):327-349. [DOI]
Egbe, Inya; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Yekini, Kemi C. (2018) 'The influence of multinational enterprises on subsidiaries: context matters'. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 31 (2):703-724. [DOI]
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Kwabi, Frank O.; Boateng, Agyenim; Adegbite, Emmanuel (2018) 'The impact of stringent insider trading laws and institutional quality on the cost of capital'. International Review of Financial Analysis, 60 :127-137. [DOI]
Li, Zhiyong; Lambe, Brendan; Adegbite, Emmanuel (2018) 'New bid-ask spread estimators from daily high and low prices'. International Review of Financial Analysis, 60 :69-86. [DOI]
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Nakpodia, Franklin; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Amaeshi, Kenneth; Owolabi, Akintola (2018) 'Neither principles nor rules: making corporate governance work in Sub-Saharan Africa'. Journal of Business Ethics, 151 (2):391-408. [DOI]
Nakpodia, Franklin; Adegbite, Emmanuel (2018) 'Corporate governance and elites'. Accounting Forum, 42 (1):17-31. [DOI]
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Zattoni, Alessandro; Witt, Michael A.; Judge, William Q.; Talaulicar, Till; Chen, Jean Jinghan; Lewellyn, Krista; Hu, Helen Wei; Gabrielsson, Jonas; Rivas, Jose Luis; Puffer, Sheila; Shukla, Dhirendra; Lopez, Felix; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Fassin, Yves; Yamak, Sibel; Fainshmidt, Stav; van Ees, Hans (2017) 'Does board independence influence financial performance in IPO firms? The moderating role of the national business system'. Journal of World Business, 52 (5):628-639. [DOI]
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Kwabi, Frank O.; Thapa, Chandra; Paudyal, Krishna; Adegbite, Emmanuel (2017) 'Biases in international portfolio allocation and investor protection standards'. International Review of Financial Analysis, 53 :66-79. [DOI]
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Yekini, Kemi C.; Adelopo, Ismail; Adegbite, Emmanuel (2017) 'The impact of community expectations on corporate community involvement disclosures in the UK'. Accounting Forum, 41 (3):234-252. [DOI]
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Tahir, Suleiman; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Guney, Yilmaz (2017) 'An international examination of the economic effectiveness of banking recapitalization'. International Business Review, 26 (3):417-434. [DOI]
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Uche, Chinyere O.; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Jones, Mike (2016) 'Institutional shareholder activism in Nigeria: an accountability perspective'. Accounting Forum, 40 (2):78-88. [DOI]
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Regulatory multiplicity and conflict: towards a combined code on corporate governance in Nigeria
2016
Osemeke, Louise; Adegbite, Emmanuel (2016) 'Regulatory multiplicity and conflict: towards a combined code on corporate governance in Nigeria'. Journal of Business Ethics, 133 (3):431-451. [DOI]
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Seny Kan, Anderson Konan; Adegbite, Emmanuel; El Omari, Sami; Abdellatif, Mahamat (2016) 'On the use of qualitative comparative analysis in management'. Journal of Business Research, 69 (4):1458-1463. [DOI]
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Amaeshi, Kenneth; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Rajwani, Tazeeb (2016) 'Corporate social responsibility in challenging and non-enabling institutional contexts: do institutional voids matter?'. Journal of Business Ethics, 134 (1):135-153. [DOI]
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Amaeshi, Kenneth; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Ogbechie, Chris; Idemudia, Uwafiokun; Seny Kan, Konan Anderson; Issa, Mabumba; Anakwue, Obianuju I.J. (2016) 'Corporate social responsibility in SMEs: a shift from philanthropy to institutional works?'. Journal of Business Ethics, 138 (2):385-400. [DOI]
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Uche, Chinyere; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Jones, Michael John (2016) 'Institutional shareholder activism in Nigeria'. Corporate Governance: international journal of business in society, 16 (4):680-692. [DOI]
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Judge, William Q.; Hu, Helen W.; Gabrielsson, Jonas; Talaulicar, Till; Witt, Michael A.; Zattoni, Alessandro; Lopez-Iturriaga, Felix; Chen, Jean Jingham; Shukla, Dhirendra; Quttainah, Majdi; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Rivas, Jose Luis; Kibler, Bruce (2015) 'Configurations of capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms: imprinting and strategic choice perspectives'. Journal of Management Studies, 52 (4):506-530. [DOI]
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Adegbite, Emmanuel (2015) 'Good corporate governance in Nigeria: antecedents, propositions and peculiarities'. International Business Review, 24 (2):319-330. [DOI]
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Okike, Elewechi; Adegbite, Emmanuel; Nakpodia, Franklin; Adegbite, Stephen (2015) 'A review of internal and external influences on corporate governance and financial accountability in Nigeria'. International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, 10 (12):165-185. [DOI]
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Seny Kan, Konan Anderson; Apitsa, Suzanne Marie; Adegbite, Emmanuel (2015) 'African management: concept, content and usability'. Society and Business Review, 10 (3):258-279. [DOI]
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Multiple influences on corporate governance practice in Nigeria: agents, strategies and implications
2013
Adegbite, Emmanuel; Amaeshi, Kenneth; Nakajima, Chizu (2013) 'Multiple influences on corporate governance practice in Nigeria: agents, strategies and implications'. International Business Review, 22 (3):524-538. [DOI]
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Corporate governance in the Nigerian banking industry: towards a strategic governmental engagement
2012
Adegbite, Emmanuel (2012) 'Corporate governance in the Nigerian banking industry: towards a strategic governmental engagement'. International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, 7 (3):209-231. [DOI]
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Adegbite, Emmanuel (2012) 'Corporate governance regulation in Nigeria'. Corporate Governance: international journal of business in society, 12 (2):257-276. [DOI]
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Adegbite, Emmanuel; Nakajima, Chizu (2012) 'Institutions and institutional maintenance: implications for understanding and theorizing corporate governance in developing economies'. International Studies of Management and Organization, 42 (3):69-88. [DOI]
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Okike, Elewechi; Adegbite, Emmanuel (2012) 'The code of corporate governance in Nigeria: efficiency gains or social legitimation'. Corporate Ownership and Control, 9 (3):262-275. [DOI]
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Adegbite, Emmanuel; Amaeshi, Kenneth; Amao, Olufemi (2012) 'The politics of shareholder activism in Nigeria'. Journal of Business Ethics, 105 (3):389-402. [DOI]
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Adegbite, Emmanuel; Nakajima, Chizu (2011) 'Corporate governance and responsibility in Nigeria'. International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, 8 (3):252-271. [DOI]
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Adegbite, Emmanuel; Shrives, Philip; Nichol, Timothy (2011) 'The role of government in corporate governance: perspectives from the UK'. Corporate Ownership and Control, 9 (1):283-293. [DOI]
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Daodu, Olabisi; Nakpodia, Franklin; Adegbite, Emmanuel (2016) 'Institutional perspectives on corporate governance reforms in Nigeria' In: Daodu, Olabisi, Nakpodia, Franklin, and Adegbite, Emmanuel (2016) Institutional perspectives on corporate governance reforms in Nigeria. In: Ngwu, Franklin N., Osuji, Onyeka K., and Stephen, Frank H., (eds.) Corporate Governance in Developing and Emerging Markets. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 173-182(Eds.). Corporate Governance in Developing and Emerging Markets. Abingdon, UK : Routledge. [DOI]
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