In Japan, since 2013, Japanese corporate governance reform has been developed by Japanese Government initiatives. This paper provides a theoretical framework for understanding what Japanese corporate governance reform means for Japanese companies by an application of agency theory. Corporate...

We examine whether allowing publicly listed firms to adopt equity-based compensation increases shareholder value for firms domiciled in weak institutional environments. We test our idea using a series of regulations in China that allowed publicly listed Chinese firms to adopt equity-based...

Due to historically weaker institutions and less favourable macroeconomic conditions in the African context, we argue that corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) activities might be penalized less while corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities may be of less benefit for firms. Using a...

China has yet to import the corporate governance “canon” (generally accepted rules as promoting share holder value as well as minority shareholder and other stakeholders' rights) into its Code of Corporate Governance. What effect would Chinese companies' simply adopting such a canon -- as...

To what extent do corporate governance practices in one jurisdiction affect another? In this paper, we look at the way that Hong Kong's and the Mainland's corporate governance practices have co-evolved, along with offshore incorporations from both places. Drawing on empirical illustrations of...

China's fuzzy corporate governance rules (whether hard or soft) do not help company managers, government officials and others coordinate and cooperate – the raison d'etre for corporate governance rules. In a corporate system dominated by personal relationships and rules, clarity and...

This paper analyzes simultaneity and endogeneity of ERM and Corporate Governance. It assesses quantitative relationship between Corporate Governance, ERM and value of the firm. The research results provide quantitative justifications for the boards to make investments in ERM and Corporate...

From the start of China's "corporatization without privatization" process in the late 1980s, a Chinese corporate governance regime apparently shareholder-empowering and determined by enabling legal norms has been altered by mandatory governance mechanisms imposed by a state administrative...

From the start of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) "corporatization" project in the late 1980s, a Chinese corporate governance regime subject to increasingly enabling legal norms has been determined by mandatory regulations imposed by the PRC securities regulator, the China Securities...

The real estate sector has emerged as the bedrock of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies, and it has remained resilient despite the various unprecedented micro- and macro-economic shocks devouring the world’s economies. However, wavering investor attitudes and minimal exposure to real...