This paper was presented to generate debate about proposals developed by a 'Corporate Governance Council' set up by the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) to advise on new guidelines. The paper identifies the invalidity of the assumptions implicit in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US and the...

Corporate identity constantly faces the threat of ethical risks, which in turn calls upon the vigilance of the board of directors. But are corporate governance structures well-equipped for the task? Shann Turnbull, author, chairman and former chairman of many publicly held companies, suggests...

The stakeholder co-operatives formed around the town of Mondragon in the Basque region of Spain have been outstandingly successful on a number of measures in comparison with other forms of firms. The control architecture within and between Mondragon firms contains a number of innovations and...

Three conditions are suggested for establishing a stable financial system: 1. Only digital money is used. 2. The Internet of Things (IoT) uses a sustainable service of nature essential to maintain the well being of the environment and humans in each region of the planet to automatically...

This paper reviews the efficacy of the Australian government's 2018 initiatives to counter widespread misconduct identified by its Royal Commission into misconduct in the banking, superannuation, insurance, and financial services industry. As regulators exist to protect stakeholders, there is a...

This chapter explains how the generation of renewable energy and the creation of sustainable communities can guide capitalism to survive climate change on a self-reinforcing basis. The process depends upon introducing an ecological “use it or lose it” rule for owning money, land, buildings...

This reading identifies how the law, regulators and corporate governance codes have introduced and/or have facilitated unethical practices that jeopardize corporate performance of publicly traded firms. The reading argues that the need for corporate governance codes arises because lawmakers,...

This article explores how both corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be improved by using insights from complexity theory. Complexity theory reveals that decentralized governance architecture is required for firms to absorb competently the increased intricacies,...

The research question for this paper is to identify how some widely accepted governance practices are not necessarily consistent with the objectives of good governance. One reason is that there is little agreement as to what are the objectives of generic good governance, be it in the public,...

This paper discusses how simplifying the management of complexity requires organisations to adopt an ecological form of governance found in nature and illustrated by stakeholder-controlled firms in the US, UK and Europe. The analysis reveals why centrally controlled command and control...