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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Governance Reform"”.
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An Examination Of Urban School Governance Reform In Detroit Public Schools, 1999-2014
… over by the state of Michigan in an effort to reform the district. In 1998 prior to the state takeover, DPS had 261 schools, 167,000 students enrolled in the district, and a $93 million budget surplus. In 2014 after several years of state control, DPS had 97 schools (-62%), 47,000 students …
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The politics of new industrial policy : sectoral governance reform in Vietnam's agro-export industries
… Yet despite the consensus that "good" sectoral governance matters, we have little understanding of how it emerges, particularly in countries that lack the prerequisites for successful industrial policy. What drives sectoral governance reforms - defined as shifts in sector-specific institutional …
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Factors impacting on the adoption and operation of corporate governance reform in Australian state government departments
Corporate governance reforms are increasingly common in public sector organisations. Despite the scope of recent and ongoing public sector change, the processes used to adopt and operate public sector corporate governance reform are not clearly documented. In some cases there is evidence of reform …
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Explaining strategic firm responsiveness to institutional processes in the evolution of corporate governance systems : the reform of director remuneration reporting in Germany
… the boundaries of national systems of corporate governance have become more permeable for the transfer of ideas and practices from other institutional contexts. I derive hypotheses from a multitheoretical framework to explain strategic firm responsiveness to national level pressures for corporate …
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Corporate governance in South Africa : the role of institutional investors
Corporate governance has become the slogan of the global investment arena over the past decade. Corporate scandals and collapses with major loss to shareholders have noted a change in investors' attitude towards this topic. Corporate governance has not only become important for the survival of …
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Extending environmental governance: China's environmental state and civil society
This thesis is a study of environmental governance reform in China. It investigates how new governance policies and arrangements are being introduced in order to overcome problems associated with China’s sizable environmental protection ‘implementation deficit’. Using an analytical framework based …
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Incubating financial development : private equity and the state
… decades after democratization and liberalization reforms, capital markets in Latin America remain underdeveloped. The second one is the considerable amount of state-related funds behind private equity (PE) investments, both in emerging and developed economies. Combining these two observations and …
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Legitimising Discourses and the Efforts to Reform the European Union’s Fiscal Governance Arrangements
… discourses are shaping the efforts to reform EU fiscal governance. Norman Fairclough’s ‘moderately constructivist’ three-dimensional framework for CDA is drawn upon. This approach is also combined with insights drawn from the new institutionalist literature base (particularly from its …
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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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Business Development and Nation (Re)Building in Canadian First Nations: A Case Study of the File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council and FHQ Developments Ltd.
… Indigenous societies. Business development and governance reform are two pathways from which First Nations can increase collective wellbeing, self-sufficiency, and self-determination. In both cases, progress is constrained by the existence of the Indian Act – a federal piece of imposed and …
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Essays on closed-end funds : internal versus external management and insider trading
… some aspects of insider trading regulation and governance reform in the managed fund arena may be overly onerous.
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A critical review of corporate governance reforms relating to South African state-owned enterprises
Corporate governance reform is an important aspect of broader reforms aimed at securing an environment attractive to both domestic and foreign investors and that enhances the benefits of investment to society. Of particular relevance is the relation between corporate governance practices and the …
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What are the corporate governance challenges for family businesses? : A comparison of the United Kingdom and China
… through a now healthy and functioning corporate governance framework. Such frameworks are well studied and established in countries such as the UK. China on the other hand, only began its corporate governance reform in the 1990s, mainly focusing on SOEs, and borrowing corporate governance …
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Rethinking viewpoints of investigation on global higher education development: Using the case of China to propose an alternative perspective to understand world higher education
… education institutions under central planning governance seems to have been critical in the national strategy to develop the top universities in China. However, the newly implemented national initiative for world-class university development, i.e., Project DFC, seems to suggest an intention to …
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Governance at the margins : the challenge of implementing slum housing policy in Maharashtra, India
… housing provision for the poor is linked to governance reform (i.e., governance building at the city level). Today (2015) the first phase of the program is complete and the second phase more than 50% complete. A study of the BSUP phase-1 projects offers a unique opportunity to understand the …
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Governance, Regulation and Performance of Non-listed Small Corporations in Australia: a Structural Equation Modelling Approach
… economy. Various studies have explored corporate governance as it applies to larger organisations. Few studies, however, have examined how corporate governance relates to small corporations. The “one size fits all model” adopted by most of the corporations’ law frameworks and the “comply or …
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An educational reform commission and institutional change: case study of the policies, politics, and processes of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
… questions about the effectiveness of educational reform commissions, this study centered on two questions: specifically, How did the Knight Commission function to bring policy reform to college sports?; and, generally, How does an independent, temporary commission influence organizational change? …
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Reforming the Chinese corporate governance system: a comparative law and economic analysis.
… with diversified ownership created the need for governance mechanisms to facilitate the monitoring of managers and to restrain them from acting inappropriately, while not unduly restricting their ability to make decisions. The issue of corporate governance has been fiercely debated in both the US …
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Corporate governance in the context of corporate restructuring
The purpose of this thesis is to study corporate governance through a holistic approach by reviewing how the interests of shareholders, creditors and employees are protected and constrained throughout the life of a company. The thesis begins with the view that corporate governance is a control …
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