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Showing 1 to 20 of 4645 for “"Governance"”.
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Predicting firm sustainability through governance: the relational corporate governance approach.
The relational corporate governance approach presented in this thesis is a tool which complements and enhances the explanatory power of the existing principal ‘law and economics’ theories and models of the firm. It maps the effectiveness of corporate Governance Variables in use in corporate …
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Enterprise coherence governance
Contains fulltext : 114150.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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World market governance
… fundamental societal system that needs its own governance. The suggestion is World Market Governance based on the Rule of Law in order to shape the fitness environment for the global market economy and strengthen the nation-states so that they can regain the sovereignty to decide upon the social …
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Governance in Nunavut
… to assist in establishing a Native form of governance in light of the recent signing of the agreement-in-principle respecting aboriginal claims settlements in Nunavut, the Inuit territory in northeastern Canada. To date, research directed in the area of Native claims primarily focuses upon …
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Pathways to governance: The role of education and training in enhancing governance practice and removing barriers to governance roles
This project investigates the pathways into governance and the role that education and training play in shaping director capability, broadening access and strengthening governance practice in New Zealand. Governance has long relied on experience, reputation and networks as the primary route into …
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Primary School Governance: The Perspectives of Head Teachers and Chairs of Governance
… has been limited research on primary school governance. The research, presented here, sought to investigate the perspectives of key stakeholders in primary school governance by interviewing the head teachers and chairs of governance of 20 schools. Maximum variation sampling was used to select …
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Towards good corporate governance: an analysis of corporate governance reforms in Uganda
… to acknowledge the profound impact of corporate governance practices on the global economy. Corporate governance has become important for the survival of companies and indeed of national economies in the increasingly global economy. Corporate governance is of particular concern in developing …
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Essays on Corporate Governance
… and robust evidence on the impact of corporate governance. Ownership structure and management characteristics are among the center of the debate. Empirical studies report conflicting evidence regarding the information environment of public family-controlled firms. We use staggered exogenous …
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ESSAYS ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
… converge upon the central theme of corporate governance. In the first chapter, we investigate CEO narcissism’s effect on firms’ debt costs. Although this managerial personality trait benefits shareholders, we find that firms face higher debt financing costs as CEO narcissism increases. The …
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Essays In Corporate Governance
<p>Corporate governance represents the collection of ways in which suppliers of finance to corporations assure themselves of getting a return on their investment. This dissertation first reviews the various corporate governance mechanisms that have been extensively studied in prior research. Then, …
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Essays in Corporate Governance
In the first chapter ("Governance by Litigation") I study the role of shareholder litigation rights in corporate governance. To empirically identify the effects of shareholder lawsuits, I use the staggered adoption of universal demand (UD) laws in 23 states between 1989 and 2005. These laws impose …
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Voluntary corporate governance disclosures and corporate governance mechanism among listed property companies in Malaysia
Voluntary corporate governance disclosures are the additional information regarding corporate governance mechanism which increases investor’s confidence while making sound investment decisions. On the other hand, corporate governance is considered as a significant mechanism for controlling and …
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Organizational Governance of Event Impacts
This study explored the governance of event legacy and/or leveraging. More broadly, this project examined the specific organizational forms that are responsible for delivering event legacy and/or leveraging strategies. This was done using a combination of organizational theories and theories of …
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Project governance : coming into focus?
Project governance although an idea recognized in project management since the mid-seventies and although being a concept that is closely related to the other concepts of governance, it is still up for debate. Previous research on the concept reveal that both meaning and application of it within …
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Governance mechanisms and firm characteristics
… sought to apply uniform standards for corporate governance following a series of high profile corporate collapses between 2000 and 2002. The various regulatory responses raised questions in the governance literature on the appropriateness of a “one size fits all” approach. However, empirical …
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Communitarian perspectives on corporate governance
Research into corporate governance is currently oriented towards understanding how governors control the governed through contractual relationships, economic decision making and control over cultural values. These theories, however, were unable to provide satisfactory explanations for the empirical …
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Virtue Ethics and Corporate Governance
… experience of ethics in their task of corporate governance so as to capture some of the multiple facets of this phenomenon: specifically how directors understand the role of ethics in their task of corporate governance and how they understand and practise ethics. The focus of the investigation …
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