The experiences of the developed countries reveals that a good corporate governance could reduces risk, stimulates performance, improves access to capital markets, enhances the marketability of goods and services, improves leadership, increases the value of the corporations, enables the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of corporate governance practices in Bangladesh. This paper demonstrates that the traditionalist culture mediates the rationalist/legalist framework of corporate governance in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach – A series of...

Purpose –This paper aims to investigate the joint effect of board characteristics on financial performance. Most of the existing literature implicitly assumes that the relationship between either board composition, or board leadership structure and financial performance is direct....

A 'good' corporate governance (CG) framework should protect shareholders' rights and ensure their equitable treatment, including minorities and foreign shareholders. It should also encourage active cooperation between corporations and stakeholders in creating wealth-generating economic...

The role of banks is integral to the economic development of any country. Given the renewed attention on the corporate governance in banks with the global financial crises, this paper investigates the relevance of board size, board composition and CEO qualities in the banks and their...

We approached the issue of blockholding effectiveness and behaviour by studying some exemplary organisational transformations in the Republic of Srpska. We found two distinct clusters of blockholdings. The first cluster is worker-entrenched blockholdings, where most workers are unionised. The...

Despite of many studies on corporate governance very few articles are focused on MENA regions. Institutional specificity of MENA call for a better comprehension of corporate governance in these regions. The article helps to explain differences between systems of corporate governance and why...

The main purpose of this paper is to test the impact of corporate governance quality onthe financial structure of companies using a dataset covering 35 developing countries from Centraland Eastern Europe as well as from Asia. Five variables related to corporate financial structureand eleven...

Using 743 Malaysian public listed companies, this study attempts to investigate the impact of corporate governance mechanism on corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure level and to examine the difference of CSR disclosure level in government-linked companies and non-government linked...

Using 743 Malaysian public listed companies, this study attempts to investigate the impact of corporate governance mechanism on corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure level and to examine the difference of CSR disclosure level in government-linked companies and non-government linked...