Corporate governance is an important issue in managing public firms because of agency problems between the shareholders and managers. Therefore, different countries devolved their own codes of corporate governance following the OECD guidelines and considering respective market conditions. The...

This book chapter explores financial institutions' corporate governance evolution, regulations and practices in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) emerging market. Data is collected for 48 listed banks and other financial institutions as on the end of December 2008. The multiple regression analysis...

The study examines the effect of internal governance mechanisms on the Internet Reporting of Strategic Information (IRSI) in an emerging market economy, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) It relies on the agency theory and the innovation diffusion theory to generate testable hypotheses and augment...

The aim of the research was to determine the impact of selected corporate governance mechanisms on the scope of disclosures related to control system over financial reporting in Poland and Germany. The research group comprised of companies from the Warsaw WIG 30 index and the German DAX index in...

This paper investigates the association between the characteristics of business entities, corporate governance, and practices of risk disclosure. Notably, the objective of this paper is to examine the impact of the characteristics of business entities and corporate governance on risk disclosure...

In listed companies, the Board of directors has ultimate responsibility for information disclosure. The conventional wisdom is that director independence is an essential factor in improving the quality of that disclosure. In a sense, this approach subordinates expertise to independence. We argue...

We investigate the role of segment disclosure, as a corporate governance mechanism, in enhancing investment efficiency, and whether and how corporate governance mechanisms ameliorate or exacerbate under-investment and over-investment problems. Using a large US sample for the period 2001-2006, we...

I study how increased internal control disclosure requirements mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) affect annual corporate governance decisions regarding CFOs. Using non-CEO, non-COO executive officers as a control group, I find that CFOs of firms with weak internal controls receive lower...