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Germany's Corporate Governance Reforms; Has the System Become Flexible Enough?
Odenius, Jürgen - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This article reviews Germany's corporate governance system and the effectiveness of recent reforms. Since the early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263885
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Disclosure of Beneficial Ownership and Control in Indonesia: Legislative and Regulatory Policy Options for Sustainable Capital Markets
Jurdant, Fianna - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2013
A good corporate governance framework should combine transparency, accountability and integrity and this requires knowledge of beneficial ownership. The protection of minority investors and other stakeholder protection will be challenging without access to reliable information about the...
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Who Cares? Corporate Governance in Today's Equity Markets
Isaksson, Mats; Çelik, Serdar - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2013
There are two main sources of confusion in the public corporate governance debate. One is the confusion about the role of public policy intervention. The other is a lack of empirical knowledge about the corporate landscape where rules are supposed to be implemented and the functioning of...
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Beneficial Ownership and Control: A Comparative Study - Disclosure, Information and Enforcement
Vermeulen, Erik P.M. - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2013
Investor confidence in financial markets depends in large part on the existence of an accurate disclosure regime that provides transparency in the beneficial ownership and control structures of publicly listed companies. This is particularly true for corporate governance systems that are...
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COMPARATIVE STUDY ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Corina, Gavrea; Roxana, Stegerean - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 674-680
Corporate governance is a key element of todayâ€(tm)s economic reality being more and more present in many countries around the world. This paper has two main objectives. The first one is to offer more insight into the concept of corporate governance by a thorough literature review and by...
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The Transition of Joint Stock Companies in Slovenia: Shareholder-Value Approach versus Stakeholder-Value Approach
Matej, Lahovnik - In: South East European Journal of Economics and Business 4 (2009) 2, pp. 71-79
<p>In the shareholder theory of firms, the company's assets are the property of the shareholders, and managers are … viewed as agents of the shareholders with all of the enforcement difficulties associated with agency relationships, but … shareholders in most companies. Obviously, Slovenian companies have changed their strategic behaviour to reflect the interests of …
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Canadian exceptionalism: shareholder proposals, filer identities, and voting outcomes
Yang, Jun; Wang, Eric Zengxiang; An, Yunbi - In: Managerial Finance 38 (2012) May, pp. 456-484
and their impact on shareholders' wealth during the period from 2001 to 2008. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 762 … focusing on open shareholder activists to investigating passive institutional shareholders. …
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Technological change and the governance of joint-stock enterprise in the early nineteenth century: The case of coastal shipping
Freeman, Mark; Pearson, Robin; Taylor, James - In: Business History 49 (2007) 5, pp. 573-594
Recent studies of the innovation process have viewed it as the outcome of organizational dynamics rather than as the product of technological developments exogenous to the governance of firms. We apply this approach to our examination of British coastal shipping companies during the early...
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Neoliberalism, deregulation and Sarbanes-Oxley: The legitimation of a failed corporate governance model
Merino, Barbara D.; Mayper, Alan G.; Tolleson, Thomas D. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 23 (2010) August, pp. 774-792
Purpose – The paper aims to use a neoliberal ideology to frame an analysis of how the power of ideas can be used to maintain a failed corporate governance model based on stockholder primacy. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs the concept of corporate hegemony to provide an...
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Determinants of board and audit committee meeting frequency: Evidence from Italian companies
Greco, Giulio - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 26 (2011) March, pp. 208-229
characteristics. The study is conducted in an agency setting featured by high ownership concentration and large insider shareholders … controlling shareholders. …
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