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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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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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Risk management in UK local authorities
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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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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Integrated reporting with CSR practices
Lueg, Klarissa; Lueg, Rainer; Andersen, Karina; … - In: Corporate Communications: An International Journal 21 (2016) 1, pp. 20-35
(including shareholders) in fostering the adoption of standards and guidelines for CSR after IR became mandatory in Denmark …
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The commercialisation of public sector information within UK government departments
Abd Hadi, Zakaria; McBride, Neil - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 13 (2000) 7, pp. 552-570
Reports that there are increasing trends towards the commercialisation of public sector information. Explains the concepts of information trading and discusses the role of the public sector. Describes three case studies within the UK government. Identifies the lack of a uniform approach to...
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New Look: going private with private equity support
Achleitner, Ann‐Kristin; Lutz, Eva; Herman, Kerry; … - In: Journal of Business Strategy 31 (2010) 3, pp. 38-49
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of UK fashion retailer New Look and focuses on the impact of private equity on corporate governance, employment and leverage after the public‐to‐private conversion in 2003. Design/methodology/approach – This study follows a...
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