We examine the effectiveness of the "Comply or Explain" approach to corporate governance in the UK. Using a unique database of 245 non-financial companies for the period 1998-2004, we find an increasing trend of compliance with the Combined Code, but a frequent use of standard explanations in...

The claim that institutions matter for economic growth and development has so far received a more extensive theoretical treatment than an empirical or methodological one. Basing our approach on a coevolutionary conception of relations between law and the economy, we link theory to method and...

Lithuanian Abstract: Belgijos Karalystėje akcininkų sutartys yra viena iš populiariausių teisinių sutartinių priemonių, padedanti akcininkams sureguliuoti tarpusavio santykius valdant bendrovę, o Jungtinėje Karalystėje ne taip plačiai naudojamos akcininkų sutartys net nėra...

The choice of legal form affects many aspects of the company's operation and is one of the key decisions that an entrepreneur must make. In this article, we conduct a comparative analysis of six legal forms of companies in terms of efficiency, indebtedness, growth and risk. Based on 72,596...

The capacity for crisis perception and to foresee risk is central to project management where responsibility for safety is a central component informing decision making. This article examines the absence of this capacity as a cause and consequence of corporate governance failure. The example of...

This study investigates the transition from being a listed company with a dispersed ownership structure to being a privately held company with a concentrated ownership structure. We consider a sample of private equity backed portfolio companies to evaluate the consequences of the corporate...

Firms use the labels of family relationships, such as parent companies, sister banks and brother-sister controlled groups. This article considers whether there are additional insights underlying such labels that could be portable to the corporate context, using the private equity (P-E) led...