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Website-based investor relations: a comparison between developed and developing economies
Yanjie, Feng; Wan, Tongshen - In: Online Information Review 37 (2013) 6, pp. 946-968
Purpose – This research aims to compare website-based investor relations (WIR) in developed and developing economies, represented by the US, UK, Hong Kong and mainland China. Design/methodology/approach – A WIR level evaluation index consisting of 82 items was constructed, based on website...
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Curbing corruption and promoting a more efficient corporate governance regime in Nigeria
Nwoke, Uchechukwu; Ekwelem, Chinwe Martha; Agbowo-Egbo, … - In: Journal of Financial Crime 30 (2022) 2, pp. 536-548
but specifically in relation to corporations in Nigerian. It examines the corporate sector and how a good legal regime can … This paper finds that there have been numerous corrupt practices involving corporations in Nigeria. Notwithstanding the …
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Corporations and development
Nwoke, Uchechukwu - In: International Journal of Law and Management 59 (2017) 1, pp. 122-146
corporations nor the pressures to which they are currently subjected encourage socially responsible behaviour. Originality …-connected but distinguishable barriers that render the CSR practices of corporations ineffective.  …
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Neoliberal shareholder value and the re-privatization of corporations
Nwoke, Uchechukwu; Ajibo, Collins Chikodi; Umahi, … - In: International Journal of Law and Management 60 (2018) 6, pp. 1354-1376
transformative corporate social responsibility (CSR). It traces the transformation of corporations from quasi-public institutions at … CSR and the belief that it is to the benefit of society as a whole for corporations to be run solely in the interest of … ineffective. Originality/value The paper offers a fresh insight or analysis into the transformation of corporations from quasi …
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Science vs. Ideology: A Comment on Lynn Stout's New Thinking on "Shareholder Primacy"
Robé, Jean-Philippe - In: Accounting, Economics, and Law 2 (2012) 2
analysis of the legal structure of the firm -and of the role of corporations to structure firms- which is replacing an ideology …
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D&O Insurance, Corporate Governance and Mandatory Disclosure: An Empirical Legal Study of Taiwan
Chen, Chun-Yuan - In: Asian Journal of Law and Economics 7 (2016) 1, pp. 19-62
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to test the signal effect of Directors and Officers (D&O) insurance and to analyze the necessity of mandatory disclosure of D&O insurance in Taiwan. D&O insurance is usually viewed as a signal mechanism of insured firms’ corporate governance and thus its...
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R&D, Liquidity Constraints, and Corporate Governance / Investitionen in FuE, Finanzierungsrestriktionen und Unternehmenssteuerung
Haid, Alfred; Weigand, Jürgen - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 221 (2001) 2, pp. 145-167
Summary The paper discusses the link between financing R&D and tangible investment, firm size, and corporate governance. Mechanisms of corporate governance, such as the presence of large shareholders or stakeholders, may reduce agency and specificity problems and improve access to external...
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Auswirkungen von Mehrfachmandaten deutscher Vorstands- und Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender auf den Unternehmenserfolg / The Impact of Multiple Board Memberships of CEOs and Chairmen of S...
Balsmeier, Benjamin; Buchwald, Achim; Peters, Heiko - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 230 (2010) 5, pp. 547-570
simultaneously active in several other boards. We use a panel data set of the biggest German corporations for the period from 1996 …
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Owners, Managers, and Entrepreneurship in The Corporate Firm
Ioannides, Stavros - In: Journal des �conomistes et des �tudes Humaines 12 (2002) 1
The “atemporal” character of Kirzner’s notion of alertness and discovery, and his insistence that entrepreneurship is independent of factor ownership have attracted many criticisms from within the Austrian camp. However, it is precisely these elements of his theory of entrepreneurship that...
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Herbert Spencer on Corporate Governance
Mingardi, Alberto - In: Man and the Economy 2 (2015) 2, pp. 195-214
Abstract Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) wrote on the emergence of railroad corporations and corporate governance matters …
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