The ongoing financial and economic crisis throughout the industrialised world has spotlighted a number of significant deficiencies in corporate governance and management. The strength and composition of the management team along with effective corporate governance policy should play an important...

Durch vermehrt aufgetretene Finanzskandale und Zusammenbrüche namhafter Unternehmen wurde in den letzten Jahren das Vertrauen der Anleger nachhaltig gestört. Um die Glaubwürdigkeit in die veröffentlichten Finanzinformationen und in die Sicherheit der unternehmerischen Überwachungsprozesse...

The report includes data published in the Red Meats Yearbook which originates in the Livestock Division, Agricultural Marketing Service CAMS); Estimates Division, National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS); and Commodity Economics Division, Economic Research Service (ERS). Included are data...

Analyses the creation (in 1998) and evolution of the Professional Association of Mutual Financial Institutions, describes the history of the Association including the challenges and problems it faced and continues to confront.

The under-representation of women on boards is a heavily discussed topic—not only in Germany. Based on critical mass theory and with the help of a hand-collected panel dataset of 151 listed German firms for the years 2000–2005, we explore whether the link between gender diversity and firm...

In this article the research of a joint-stock company's management system construction issue is carried out. Its structure is considered, certainly place and role of a supervisory board in control management system and also necessity of creation of corporate secretary is defined.

Good corporate governance depends on well balanced relations between supervisory mechanisms in the corporate governance process. Relations between the supervisory board, as the internal supervisory mechanism, and external auditing, as the external supervisory mechanism, are crucial for the...

In traditional approach, company performance is related to Top Management Team (TMT) group characteristics, such as board size and composition, board tenure, age, experience, education, and competences. Initially, TMT characteristics were considered to have crucial significance for group...