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corporate management or controlling shareholders in Hong Kong and Singapore, which are both international financial centers …
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minority shareholders. We explore these strategies by concentrating on one jurisdiction, i.e. Singapore. The study of Singapore … either by business families or the state. Singapore thus provides an eminently suitable case study for when the participative …
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. Unsurprisingly, Singapore as a corporate governance leader in Asia, adopted a stewardship code. Based on a superficial textual … analysis, the Singapore Code appears to be a near carbon-copy of the UK Code. However, this article, which provides the first … in-depth comparative analysis of stewardship in Singapore, demonstrates how Singapore has turned the UK model of …
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in Singapore. Three main problems are identified: (i) data from advisers' opinions issued between 2008 and 2010 in … connection with takeover offers of Singapore-listed companies show that there are a significant number of advisers who do not use …
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This report evaluates the corporate governance practices of Colombian SOEs against the OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). The assessment was prepared based on information provided by the Colombian authorities, an analysis of the available literature and...
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“Offensive shareholder activism” involves buying up sizeable stakes in underperforming companies and agitating for changes predicted to increase shareholder returns. Though hedge funds are currently highly publicized practitioners of this corporate governance tactic, there has been no...
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environments: France, the United States, Norway, Colombia, Brazil, Japan, Singapore, and China. We leverage the lessons from this …
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This short paper discusses the recently promoted mixed-ownership reform (MOR) in light of the increasingly strengthened "Party-building" work in SOEs. It first briefly introduces the state of SOEs in China as well as the legal and political structures of corporate governance in SOEs. It then...
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Since the last Polish parliamentary elections in 2015, some deep changes have been announced in the legal framework of state-owned companies. The changes are supposed to be mainly targeted at setting different rules of remuneration policy of the boards' members compared to private-owned...
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The case of SOS Support Public Broadcasting Coalition v South African Broadcasting Corporation SOC Limited (81056/14) [2017] ZAGPJHC 289 deals with the removal of directors of state-owned companies and to the constitutionality and lawfulness of the powers excised by the Minister of...
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