We develop and test the hypothesis that foreign direct investment promotes corporate governance spillovers in the host country. Using firm-level data on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate governance in 22 countries, we find that cross-border M&As are associated with...

Corporate governance reforms are occurring in countries around the globe and potentially impacting the population of the entire planet. In developing countries, such reforms occur in a larger context that is primarily defined by previous attempts at promoting “development” and recent...

The corporate governance of professional soccer clubs (PSCs) has come under close scrutiny as the financial situation of PSCs has worsened and numerous governance failures have occurred in European soccer. Literature argues that the choice of legal form is a main driver of good governance and...

This paper explores the causal links between the role of public finance and Bihar's growth and development in the last decade; and argues that these links are tenuous. Bihar's growth acceleration precedes the ‘policy reforms' in public finance based on the ‘good governance' agenda...

From the Gabonese experience, this article studies the way international pressures about “good governance” have an impact on the organization and the functioning of the health system in a developing country. At first governance and good governance are defined under a critical point of view....

African states are often called corrupt indicating that the political system in Africa differs from the one prevalent in the economically advanced democracies. This however does not give us any insight into what makes corruption the ruling norm of African statehood. Thus we must turn to the...

Good governance can reduce uncertainty, transaction, search and production costs, and ultimately affect firm performance. In this paper, we explore the link between good governance and the profitability of individual firms in African countries. We employ the governance indices developed at the...

National governments have sovereign mandates to provide basic goods and services to the citizenry. This study seeks to find out the citizenry?s opinion regarding the general performance of the Government of National Unity (GNU). Study findings suggest that while the GNU has made commendable...

Corruption is widely identified as a critical problem for developing economies and is also viewed as a priority issue by international organisations and donors. Governments such as Vietnam place anti-corruption high on their policy agenda. However, external observers regularly criticise them for...

Within the European Union order, the national public administrations play a very important role. They are responsible for the enforcement and the control of the execution of the policies of the European Communities, in all the states of the European Union, in the interest of the respective...