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Insider trading has received a bad name in recent decades. The popular press makes it sound like an evil practice where those who engage in it are totally devoid of ethical principles. Yet not all insider trading is illegal and some studies have concluded that certain kinds of insider trading...
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The merger mania of the 1980s put top corporate management on the defensive as predators sought takeover targets. Hostile takeover activity has dissipated in recent years, for a variety of reasons, but the ethical issues surrounding acquisitions and mergers and the ethically questionable conduct...
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Insider trading in the United States has been receiving a lot of press coverage in recent years. The press has given the public the impression that insider trading is evil, unethical and illegal, when in fact such is not always the case. In some cases, insider trading is beneficial to the...
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Corporate governance issues are especially important in transition economies, since these countries do not have the … long-established financial institution infrastructure to deal with corporate governance issues. Before the fall of the … Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was no need to discuss corporate governance issues because all …
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Corporate governance is a new and rapidly changing field in transition economies. Companies must have good corporate … governance to attract foreign investment but many Russian firms have governance practices that leave much to be desired. Until a … corporations to adopt good corporate governance practices such as electing independent directors, forming an audit committee as …
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Practically every article that has ever been written about the economic, legal or ethical aspects of acquisitions and mergers has proceeded to discuss the topic from the viewpoint of the initiators, the predators, to use a pejorative term. Very little has been written about the individuals who...
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Timeliness of financial reporting is an attribute of good corporate governance. Shareholders and other stakeholders … information becomes and the less value it has. Corporate governance is a relatively new concept for transition economies. Prior to …
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Corporate governance has become a popular topic in recent years. Although much attention has been given to corporate … governance in the United States and other Western countries as a result of recent scandals, and in Japan and other East Asian … transition economies in the area of corporate governance. This paper discusses recent developments in corporate governance in …
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Corporate governance has become an increasingly important issue in recent years, both as a result of corporate scandals … corporate governance as part of its project on the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC). The corporate … governance principles in each ROSC are benchmarked against the OECD's Principles of Corporate Governance. The present study uses …
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