The Covid-19 pandemic offers an unprecedented opportunity to advance research on how various corporate governance mechanisms shape firms’ decision-making, survival and success. In the short term, corporate governance research could pinpoint which mechanisms in place before the pandemic (e.g., ownership structure, board attributes, executive compensation) will shape corporate responses, thus affecting firms’ survival in the post-pandemic period. In the long term, the crisis will trigger structural changes in governance mechanisms to enable firms to either prevent or respond to the occurrences of potentially similar events. In the reminder of this essay, we will first discuss the peculiar nature of the recent crisis in relation to other recent crises. Then, we will analyse the impact of Covid-19 on five key areas in the field of corporate governance (i.e., corporate purpose, ownership structure, board of directors, executive compensation and accountability) and, for each of them, we will suggest a series of research questions that contribute to redirecting and advancing the domain.

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系统性危机后的公司治理研究：COVID-19 大流行的教训和机遇

Covid-19 大流行为推进有关各种公司治理机制如何影响公司决策、生存和成功的研究提供了前所未有的机会。短期内，公司治理研究可以确定大流行之前的哪些机制（例如，所有权结构、董事会属性、高管薪酬）将影响企业的反应，从而影响大流行后时期的企业生存。从长远来看，危机将引发治理机制的结构性变化，使企业能够预防或应对潜在类似事件的发生。在本文的提醒中，我们将首先讨论与近期其他危机相关的近期危机的特殊性质。然后，