were bailed out by governments worldwide since the beginning of the global financial crisis in 2009. While governance … reforms are being considered to reinstate the stability of global financial systems, there is little evidence on the role that … crisis using a dataset comprised of 296 of the world’s largest financial companies across 30 countries, for which they …

attempts at promoting “development” and recent processes of economic globalization. In this context, corporate governance … reforms (in combination with the liberalising reforms associated with economic globalization), in effect represent a new … development strategy for third world countries. The most basic questions that arise with respect to this situation are what the …