Good corporate governance is indispensable for the survival and performance of corporate entities. The purpose of the Capital Markets Authority’s (CMA) Guidelines on good corporate governance was to improve governance practices in the corporate sector, as well as attract and retain...

Current debates in social and political studies raise concerns about a ‘democratic deficit’ in society. Critical debates in work, employment and industrial relations raise similar concerns about intensified employer and managerial power and weak workers’ voice in substantive...

Corporate governance has emerged as a leading investment criterion for institutional investors with the rise of cross-border portfolio flows, especially for markets with weak investor protection. This study provides firm-level evidence on the relationship between the level of foreign...

The internal audit elaborates recommendations in order to improve the government process for the fulfilling of some strategic objectives, amongst one can mention: the promotion of ethic values within the patrimonial entities, the insurance of accountability, the efficient functioning of the...

Banks are the backbones of any economy therefore it is of immense importance for economies to possess a healthy and buoyant banking system with effective corporate governance practices. In Nigeria, the Central Bank replaced the past governance codes with the CBN code (2012). Therefore this study...

The aim of this empirical study is to analyse the impact of Corporate Governance on Capital Structure Decisions in Saudi Arabian commercial banking sector. The components of corporate governance whose impact has been analysed on the capital structure are board size, independence of directors,...

This paper utilizes data on the presence of prominent individuals—that is, those with political (e.g., Members of Parliament) and aristocratic titles (e.g., lords)--on the boards of directors of English and Welsh banks from 1879-1909 to investigate whether the appointment of well-connected...

China has sought to improve enterprise performance not through privatisation as in other transition economies, but through corporatisation as means of improving corporate governance. Actual governance practices of corporatised Chinese firms are however seriously defective, characterized by...

Countries with weaker domestic institutions hold fewer foreign assets and exhibit concentrated corporate ownership. An equilibrium business cycle model of international capital ows with corporate governance frictions between outside investors and insiders explains both phenomena. Investment...

The purpose of this study is to distinguish between delisting and surviving firms using corporate governance characteristics of the firms.To this end, we employ discriminant analysis on a sample of industry and size matched pair of delisting firms. The sample was retrieved as a subset of firms...