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Corporate Governance and Government Owned Corporations in Queensland [PDF]
Bond Law Review, 1998 The purpose of this article is to review the legal structure, constitution and regulation, both internal and external, of government owned corporations in Queensland and to identify the principles of corporate governance applicable to such organisations.
Darryl D McDonough
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Investor Protection and Corporate Governance [PDF]
, 2000 Recent research has documented large differences among countries in ownership concentration in publicly traded firms, in the breadth and depth of capital markets, in dividend policies, and in the access of firms to external finance.
Rafael La Porta +3 more
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A Survey of Corporate Governance [PDF]
The Journal of Finance, 1996 ABSTRACTThis article surveys research on corporate governance, with special attention to the importance of legal protection of investors and of ownership concentration in corporate governance systems around the world.
Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny
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Corporate governance and corporate performance [PDF]
, 2000 National corporate-governance traditions are distinctive, deeply rooted, and difficult to change. Recent research points to a country's legal traditions and its stage of economic development as important determinants of corporate-governance institutions.
William R. Emmons, Frank A. Schmid
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Corporate Taxation and Corporate Governance [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 The effects of corporate taxation on firm behavior have been extensively discussed in the neoclassical model of firm behavior which abstracts from agency problems. As emphasized by the corporate governance literature, corporate investment behavior is however crucially influenced by diverging interests between shareholders and managers.
Köthenbürger, Marko +1 more
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Corporate governance and firms financial performance in the United Kingdom [PDF]
, 2020 The objective of this study is to examine empirically the impact of good corporate governance on financial performance of United Kingdom non-financial listed firms. Agency theory and stewardship theory serve as the bases of a conceptual model.
M. Kyere, M. Ausloos
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 1998 Corporate governance which is the subject of this issue is a fashionable concept but like most fashionable ideas it is remarkably imprecise. It is about corporate power, corporate accountability and the standards by which the corporation is to be governed and by whom.
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Blockholders and Corporate Governance [PDF]
Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2013 This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the channels through which blockholders (large shareholders) engage in corporate governance. In classical models, blockholders exert governance through direct intervention in a firm’s operations, otherwise known as “voice.” These theories have motivated empirical research on the ...
Alex Edmans, Alex Edmans
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Corporate Governance Externalities [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 When firms compete in the managerial labor market, the choice of corporate governance by a firm affects, and is affected by, the choice of governance by other firms. Firms with weaker governance offer managers more generous incentive compensation, which induces firms with good governance to also overpay their management.
Paolo F. Volpin +2 more
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Corporate Governance and Elites [PDF]
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017 Using a qualitative methodology (interviews), we examine the relationship between the effectiveness of corporate governance mechanisms and elitist interventions. In doing this, we identify three elitist groups – political, cultural and religious, and investigate how they shape the legitimacy and effectiveness (or otherwise) of the institutional drivers
Nakpodia, Franklin, Adegbite, Emmanuel
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