Respecting the importance of corporate governance (CG), particularly various corporate governance mechanisms for improving corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, the paper highlights relevant CG-CSR synergies from the perspective of systems thinking. The paper further aims to...

This paper offers an investigation at a micro-level of entrepreneurship in the business environment. More precisely, we conduct an empirical study of the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and corporate governance in the case of the Romanian non-financial listed companies. We use...

Diese Studie untersucht die Akzeptanz der Empfehlung 4.2.3 Abs. 4 S. 1 Deutscher Corporate Governance Kodex zwischen 2010 und 2014 bei allen CDAX-Unternehmen. Dazu wurden die Entsprechenserklärungen ausgewertet, Entsprechens- und Abweichungsquoten bestimmt, Abweichungsgründe ermittelt und...

The paper investigates how Private Equity (PE) ownership influences out-performance of a high-growth firm, and whether it differs from the effect of two other important types of financial investors: banks and non-bank financial firms. We transform the levered return on equity into a unlevered...

Corporate ethical behavior is influenced by the social context in which a corporation operates. The social context consists of legal rules, law enforcement as well as shared norms (culture). Prior literature explores the effects of legal rules and law enforcement on private control benefits and...

The role of outside directors is one of the key features in the transatlantic corporate governance debate. As their importance rises, their liability is also attracting attention. Since there are only a few cases internationally in which outside directors of listed companies have been held...

The World Bank has published a series of reports on corporate governance as part of its project on the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC). The corporate governance principles in its ROSC Reports are benchmarked against the OECD's Principles of Corporate Governance (OECD...

The World Bank has published a series of reports on corporate governance as part of its project on the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC). The corporate governance principles in its ROSC Reports are benchmarked against the OECD's Principles of Corporate Governance (OECD...

The World Bank has published a series of reports on corporate governance as part of its project on the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC). The corporate governance principles in its ROSC Reports are benchmarked against the OECD's Principles of Corporate Governance (OECD...