Henrique Castro Martins

Research

2025
Strategy — Long Range Planning, 102582, 2025

Symbolic or substantive? How shareholder heterogeneity shapes the purpose of the corporation

This study investigates how the heterogeneity of shareholders’ financial and social interests creates tension around competing interpretations of the purpose of the corporation, particularly regarding their incompatibility and relative prevalence of initiatives that extend beyond profit maximization.

2025
ESG — Business & Society, 2025

Competing Voices, Persistent Gaps: Shareholder Proposal Activism and ESG Decoupling

We investigate the occurrence and the persistence of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) decoupling when firms are exposed to heterogeneity in shareholder proposal activism, reflected by the different orientation of shareholder activists and the competing nature of their demands.

2024
Artificial Intelligence — GV-executivo, v. 23, n. 3, 2024

Inteligência Artificial: O que o Gestor deve saber

Um guia prático e conceitual sobre os impactos da IA na gestão, voltado para líderes e tomadores de decisão.

2023
Corporate Governance — European Management Review, forthcoming, 2023

Creativity governance: A conceptual framework for tailoring governance to the creativity and uncertainty in entrepreneurial projects

In this article, we propose a typology of firms’ projects drawing on parameters stemming from recent advancements in creativity theory: opacity and unlikelihood.

2023
Corporate Finance — Finance Research Letters, forthcoming, 2023

Financial materiality and corporate risk - evidence from an Instrumental Variables (IV) design

This article investigates how the disclosure of financially material information relates to corporate risk using the SASB materiality framework.

2023
Corporate Governance — Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, V50, Issue 7-8, 2023

Investment–cash flow sensitivity and investor protection

We examine the role of country-level legal investor protection (i.e., shareholder and creditor protection) on firm investment–cash flow sensitivity.

2022
Corporate Finance — Finance Research Letters, 46*(A), 102371, 2022

Competition and ESG practices in emerging markets - Evidence from a difference-in-differences model

This paper investigates how competition affects firms' environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices in 22 emerging markets.

2022
Corporate Governance — Review of Managerial Science, 16, 1979–2034, 2022

Integrating uncertainty and governance into a capital structure puzzle: can risk-taking and rule-taking explain zero-leverage firms?

Can risk-taking and rule-taking explain zero-leverage firms?

2022
Corporate Governance — Brazilian Review of Finance, 20, 48–76, 2022

Blockholders and firm value: Evidence from Brazil

This research analyzes the relationship between the presence of blockholders and the value of Brazilian firms.

2022
Open Science — Working Paper / Conceptual Framework

Risk taking and Corporate Governance

A framework of uncertainty taking and its implications for Agency Theory.

2020
Corporate Governance — Journal of Management and Governance, 24, 821–850, 2020

Does control concentration affect board busyness? International evidence

We investigate specific characteristics of the board of directors: the number of directors' directorships and the number of committee positions.

2020
Corporate Finance — Journal of Contemporary Administration - RAC, 25*(1), 2021

Tutorial-Articles - The Importance of Data and Code Sharing

About Open Science mechanisms, data sharing, and the context for tutorial-articles.

2020
Corporate Finance — Managerial and Decision Economics, 41*(4), 562-573, 2020

The Brazilian bankruptcy law reform, corporate ownership concentration, and risk-taking

We investigate whether a bankruptcy reform, which increased creditors' protection, affected the risk taking of Brazilian firms.

2020
Corporate Governance — Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, 47*(5-6), 708-729, 2020

Do shareholder protection and creditor rights have distinct effects on the association between debt maturity and ownership structure?

This study examines the effects of the firm's ownership concentration and its institutional environment on corporate debt maturity choices.

2019
Corporate Governance — International Finance, 22*(3), 422-438, 2019

Investor protection, managerial entrenchment, and cash holdings - Cross-country evidence

We investigate whether investor protection is associated with how entrenched managers set corporate cash holdings.

2017
Corporate Governance — Corporate Governance: An International Review, 25(4) 236-254, 2017

Country-level governance quality, ownership concentration, and debt maturity - A comparative study of Brazil and Chile

This study investigates the interplay between country-level governance quality and the capital structure choice at the firm level in Brazil and Chile.

2016
Corporate Governance — Corporate Governance: An International Review, 24(3), 181-199, 2016

Cross-National Governance Research - A Systematic Review and Assessment

A Systematic Review surveying 192 cross-national comparative studies to synthesize the interplay between country- and firm-level governance.