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China's management of enterprise assets : the state as shareholder
1997
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Does More Power for Shareholders Undermine Board Stewardship?
World Bank - 2012
The level of shareholders' expertise and experience needs to be questioned as they wield greater clout and become more … deeply involved in strategic issues that should be the board's purview. This misdirected involvement distracts shareholders … from their principal and most important role: electing and overseeing boards. To play that role, shareholders must have the …
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Where Were the Directors?
World Bank - 2012
3) bridging the expertise chasm between Managers and Directors. Those are all long-standing issues, what makes Beatty …
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Corporate Governance : A North American Perspective
World Bank - 2012
the shareholders in the US who have comparatively weaker rights than shareholders in some other countries, thereby making … it difficult for shareholders to hold boards to account without prohibitive cost and effort. The message is that law and …
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Financing firms in India
Allen, Franklin (contributor) - 2006
"The authors examine the legal and business environments, financing channels, and governance mechanisms of various types of firms in India and compare them to those from other countries. Despite its English commonlaw origin, strong legal protection provided by the law, and a democratic...
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Public sentinel : news media & governance reform
Norris, Pippa (contributor) - 2009
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Corporate governance of state-owned enterprises : a guide for practitioners
2014
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Corporate governance and bank performance : a joint analysis of the static, selection, and dynamic effects of domestic, foreign, and state ownership
Berger, Allen N. (contributor) - 2005
"The authors jointly analyze the static, selection, and dynamic effects of domestic, foreign, and state ownership on bank performance. They argue that it is important to include indicators of all the relevant governance effects in the same model. "Nonrobustness" checks (which purposely exclude...
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What drives corporate governance reform? : firm-level evidence from Eastern Europe
Aroca González, Patricio (contributor) - 2005
shareholders are more likely to adopt these provisions. The authors do not find any significant relationship between the use of … provisions is influenced by large, minority shareholders in their battle for representation in the board, and in managerial …
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Special issues relating to corporate governance and family control
Morck, Randall - 2004
"Control of corporate assets by wealthy families in economies lacking institutional integrity is common. It has negative implications on corporate governance and adverse macroeconomic effects when it extends across a sufficiently large part of the country's corporate sector. Morck and Yeung...
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