Israel’s compliance with International Organization of Securities Commissions’ objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation has been assessed. The regulatory regime is well developed and in most respects is comparable with that of major jurisdictions. For the most part, it is...

Profit‐sharing and employee share ownership schemes have attracted great interest in the 1980s. The findings of the first phase of a Department of Employment study which involved a large‐scale investigation of British companies is reported. Details on the operation, coverage and type of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of audit committee meeting frequency in Chinese listed companies. Design/methodology/approach – A multiple linear regression model, derived from the logarithmic model proposed by Raghunandan and Rama, is used to examine...

How can the unit trust industry expand its customer base? To date, although public interest in equity investment has spread widely since the 1984 launch of the major privatisation flotations, unit trusts still attract only about the same number and types of investors as before. Three‐quarters...

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine the moderating effect of gross domestic product on the relation-ship between share ownership and strategic risk-taking of airlines. Theoretical foundation of this work is upper echelon theory and contingency theory. Design/methodology/approach:...