Chapter 1 Corporate Governance: An Introduction -- Chapter 2 Boards and Directors -- Chapter 3 Theoretical Perspectives of Corporate Governance -- Chapter 4 Internal Control, Financial Oversight and Risk Management -- Chapter 5 Global Corporate Governance Movement -- Chapter 6 Shareholders and...

We investigate the role of family ownership on turnover within a firm's board of directors when the firm appoints a new board chair. We conduct regression analysis using financial and governance data of public companies in the United States. We test new theoretical relationships linking the...

We evaluate the effects of management ownership and other corporate governance variables on Hong Kong firms' stock performance following the onset of the Asian Financial Crisis (1997-98), a period during which corporate governance structures to protect the interests of outside shareholders are...