South Africa (SA) has pursued corporate governance reforms in the form of the 1994 and 2002 King Reports. This paper examines the association between the presence of independent non-executive directors (INEDs) and market valuation of a sample of 169 firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock...

Affairs support structures (SSA) is a clearly defined structures, which provides a range of facilities and / or spaces for economic activities of production and services (except those that are not financed under ERDF rules). These are aimed at attracting investment and unlocking the potential of...

The specific objective of this area of intervention is to improve the quality of healthcare infrastructure and territorial division - their regional balance in the country, to ensure equal access of citizens to health services.

Every enterprise develops the activity using both equity and borrowed capital, different one by the other through the generated/engendered costs. The financial risk determines the variability of result indicators, thanks to the financial structure of enterprise modification. Due the lack of own...

The post-Apartheid South African corporate governance (CG) model is a unique hybridisation of the traditional Anglo-American and Continental European-Asian CG models, distinctively requiring firms to explicitly comply with a number of affirmative action and stakeholder CG provisions, such as...

This paper investigates the relationship between an integrated corporate governance (CG) index and financial performance using a sample of 169 South African (SA) listed corporations between 2002 and 2007. We find a statistically significant and positive association between a broad set of good CG...

We investigate the impact of corporate board meetings on corporate performance for a sample of 169 listed corporations from 2002 to 2007 in South Africa (SA). Our findings suggest a statistically significant and positive association between the frequency of corporate board meetings and corporate...

Profitability is a management concept with the objective of assessment bank's results from efficiency point of view both for entirely activity and for differently management compounds.From conceptual point of view, profitability represents the modality to achieve the major goal of bank's...