This survey provides a synthetic and evaluative survey of issues in corporate financial distress and bankruptcy. This area has moved into a public domain as a result of the recent global financial crisis that witnessed failures of many venerable institutions that got rescued by the government....

A comparison of the neoclassical and the social economics paradigms, showing that the explicit inclusion of values enhances the explanatory value of social economics. This is illustrated by using literary examples to explain the difficulty the competitive model has in providing analyses and...

This paper utilizes data on the presence of prominent individuals—that is, those with political (e.g., Members of Parliament) and aristocratic titles (e.g., lords)--on the boards of directors of English and Welsh banks from 1879-1909 to investigate whether the appointment of well-connected...

We investigate corporate governance and risk in Indonesian banking. More specifically, we investigate whether ownership concentration and commissioners affect bank risk and profitability. Using a sample of 117 Indonesian banks (for ownership concentration analysis), and 28 public banks (for...

Over the years, many corporations have been trying to determine what they can and should do to contribute to the sustainability of the economic, social and ecological environment within which they operate. Corporate social responsibility has become a key senior management issue worldwide and an...

This study is an attempt to develop a conceptual decision dynamics model in order to analyze the relationship between cost control and corporate governance. The model discusses why it is important to uphold the shareholders' interests and minimize the destructive events that usually occur in...

We present a novel source of disagreement grounded in decision theory: ambiguity aversion. We show that ambiguity aversion generates endogenous disagreement between a firm's insider and outside shareholders, creating a new rationale for corporate governance systems. In our paper, optimal...

The extensive research on corporate governance, economies’ transition and strategic management delivers interesting and important insights into the characteristics of companies operating in different countries. The growing popularity of the comparative analysis approach also enriches...

State Owned Companies (SOC), like all companies irrespective of their shareholder character, are influenced both by external and internal corporate governance instruments. SOCs are supervised also by the officials of the Ministry of Treasury, that constitute distinctive corporate governance...

Good corporate governance depends on well balanced relations between supervisory mechanisms in the corporate governance process. Relations between the supervisory board, as the internal supervisory mechanism, and external auditing, as the external supervisory mechanism, are crucial for the...