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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"corporate governance reform"”.
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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
… processes, 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 …
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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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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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Towards good corporate governance: an analysis of corporate governance reforms in Uganda
The recent onslaught of corporate scandals has compelled the world 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. …
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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
… addressed 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 …
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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 …
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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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The corporate governance structure and corporate performance: empirical studies of China's listed real estate companies
This study examines the effectiveness of the corporate governance mechanisms and their impact on corporate performance, using the data of one industry sector-China's listed real estate companies. The studies include four parts: (l). the ownership structure, (2). the board structure; (3). the …
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Virtue Ethics and Corporate Governance
… lived 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 …
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Beyond Short-Termism: Effective Regulatory and Financial Industry Reform for Sustainable Long-Term Investment in Publicly Listed Companies
… and financial industry efforts meant to reform SMST in major capital markets after the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. I hypothesize that the extensive discussion of the SMST issue has generated substantial reforms. Based on an analysis of the implemented reforms, I reveal that the …