Erklärungsansätze für Koalitionsbildungen im Rahmen der Corporate Governance bieten die traditionellen agencytheoretischen Modelle und Quasi-Renten-Ansätze einerseits und die Organisations- und Stewardship-Theorie andererseits. Während sich die beiden erstgenannten Ansätze ausschließlich...

The European Commission (EC) discusses in her regulation draft of 2011 the external mandatory auditor rotation (audit firm rotation) principally after six years as a reform measure to increase auditor independence, which could complement the internal mandatory rotation (auditor rotation) by the...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the firm-level factors effect on the audit pricing in China and Pakistan. For this purpose, we used the panel data of 160 firms of each country of study for the period from 2005 to 2011. First, we run the combined model for two countries and observed...

In 2002, the German Corporate Governance Code (GCGC) was established to improve corporate governance of German listed firms and to make the German corporate governance system and firm-specific corporate governance more transparent for (international) investors. With regard to the empirical...