This paper contributes to the current corporate governance debate through describing changes that have taken place in Nokia during the past decade. It can be seen that traditional ways of corporate governance and management do not apply for companies operating in a fast changing business and...

The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to theirperformance. Based on a novel dataset covering Ukrainian joint stock companies in 2002-2006, the paper finds statistically significant negative association between the pastperformance of firms measured by return...

1. Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 Problem Setting 1.3 Research Objectives 2. Theoretical Framework 2.1 Transaction Cost Economics 2.2 Ownership Problems and Corporate Governance 3. Research Methodology 3.1 Research Location 3.2 Data Sources 3.3 Method of Analysis3.4 Classification of Variables...

Close corporations account for 51 percent of the private sector output and 52 percent of all private employment in the US. Understanding governance issues facing these firms is therefore of considerable importance.(...)