Purpose – First, this study contextually examines the governance codes of South Africa and South Korea. Second, it analyzes board features of South African (JSE) Mainboard and South Korean (KRX) KOSPI-listed companies.Design/methodology – This review is qualitative and uses data from the...

Purpose: This paper investigates the level of voluntary compliance with, and disclosure of, corporate governance best practices, and the extent to which board characteristics and shareholding structures can explain discernible differences in the level of voluntary corporate governance disclosure...

The purpose of this article is to find the link between board independence, board size and BPD (regional development bank) performance for describing the corporate governance in regional development bank. The sample of firms consists all 26's BPD in Indonesia in the period 2010-2014; we take...

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...

Purpose -- This paper investigates whether firm-level corporate governance has an influence on the equity financing patterns in an emerging economy such as Bangladesh.Design/methodology/approach -- The regression framework uses a questionnaire survey-based corporate governance index (CGI)...

This paper investigates the influence of firm-level corporate governance on financial performance of the listed firms in Bangladesh. Agency theory suggests that better corporate governance reduces expropriation costs, which in turn enhances investors' confidence in the firm's future cash flow...

This paper determines the effect of ownership structure, governance mechanisms, and legal systems on long term operating performance of acquiring firms in emerging countries. The current work investigates the performance of sixty-nine merger and acquisition deals in emerging market countries....

This study investigates whether listed companies in Jordan comply with mandatory governance rules and explores factors that affect the governance compliance level. A checklist was designed to construct a governance index for each of 128 Jordanian listed companies that disclose the necessary data...

Corporate research and development (R&D) may contribute to the development of emerging market countries. However, corporate R&D activities are inherently risky and difficult to monitor, and ownership of emerging market firms is generally relatively concentrated and shareholder protection...

Using data on China's split-share structure reform that floats non-tradable shares, we find that Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFIIs) have greater influence over the controlling state shareholders than local mutual funds. QFIIs are less prone to political pressure and are more...