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Corporate Governance and the Sons of Cadbury

Vinten, Gerald - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 1 (2001) 4, pp. 4-8

Corporate governance has emerged from obscurity into being a mainstream topic about which there is a need to know, as well as being incorporated into industrial and commercial training courses. There has been a plethora of reports starting in the USA and spreading to the UK, which has then...

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Agrícola Ebro's tender offer for Campos Chilenos to control Iansa

Parisi, Franco; Nail, Lance; Sciaraffia, Vito - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 9 (2009) 3, pp. 244-254

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the wealth expropriation from minority to majority shareholders due … to the lack of legislation protecting the interests of minority shareholders in an acquisition deal, validating the … premium of nearly 250 percent, most minority shareholders actually suffered wealth losses ranging from US$ 7.1 to 31 …

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The evolution of sovereign wealth funds: Singapore's Temasek Holdings

Ng, Wilson - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 18 (2010) 1, pp. 6-14

Purpose – Where there has been little in‐depth understanding of sovereign wealth funds, the purpose of this paper is to describe the complex nature of one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, Temasek Holdings (“Temasek”), whose “active” investment strategy has been emulated...

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Maximizing shareholder value: the risks to employees, customers and the community

Cassidy, Denis - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 3 (2003) 2, pp. 32-37

‐term shareholder value has been destroyed. In order to rebuild the trust of the individual shareholders, employees, pensioners and the …

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UK, Russia, Kazakhstan and Cyprus governance compared

Johannesson, Jokull; Palona, Iryna; Salazar Guillen, … - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 12 (2012) 2, pp. 226-242

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the corporate governance standards of Cyprus, Russia, and Kazakhstan to those of the UK to facilitate investment decisions. The paper aims to discover governance gaps creating a potential for alignment to UK standards....

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Governance without boards: the Quakers

Velayutham, Sivakumar - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 13 (2013) 3, pp. 223-235

Purpose – Boards are a central feature in any discussion of corporate governance. Following the adoption of corporate governance principles in the public sector and the non‐profit sector, boards have become a central feature of these entities too. The purpose of this paper is to explore the...

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Risk management in UK local authorities : The effectiveness of current guidance and practice

Crawford, Margaret; Stein, William - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 17 (2004) 6, pp. 498-512

Local authorities in the UK have lagged behind other sectors in developing a sector‐wide approach to the risk management aspects of corporate governance. The governance framework published in 2001, however, goes further than the private sector combined code in its reporting requirements. This...

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Do environmental and task characteristics matter in the control of externalized local public services? : Unveiling the relevance of party characteristics and citizens' offstage voice

Cristofoli, Daniela; Ditillo, Angelo; Liguori, … - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 23 (2010) 3, pp. 350-372

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mechanisms adopted by cities to control the provision of externalized public services and to explore the determinants of such control choices. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents the results of a multiple case study based...

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Regulatory arbitrage through financial innovation

Shah, Atul K. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 10 (1997) 1, pp. 85-104

Despite the existence of accounting standards, there still remains a degree of flexibility in their interpretation and gaps between rules. It is alleged that management practises “creative compliance” to influence the picture of financial performance portrayed in the annual report. This...

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CSR stakeholder engagement and Nigerian tobacco manufacturing sub‐sector

Uzoma Ihugba, Bethel - In: African Journal of Economic and Management Studies 3 (2012) 1, pp. 42-63

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the stakeholder engagement approach, level, rationale and implications for corporate social responsibility (CSR) management and governance in the Nigerian tobacco sub‐sector. Design/methodology/approach – Data were obtained from the...

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