Corporate Governance: Volume 12 Issue 5

Corporate governance and corporate finance practices in a Kuwait Stock Exchange market listed firm: a survey to confront theory with practice

Mohammad Al Mutairi, Gary Tian, Helen Hasan, Andrew Tan

This paper aims to explore the issue of corporate governance mechanisms by including the importance of stakeholders, primary objectives of the firm and the ownership of top…

The role of information and communication technologies on moral agents and governance in society

Michael L. McIntyre, Steven A. Murphy

This paper aims to examine the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) on moral agents, and in turn, governance structures in western societies.

Effects of corporate governance on capital structure: empirical evidence from Pakistan

Nadeem Ahmed Sheikh, Zongjun Wang

The aim of this empirical study is to investigate whether corporate governance attributes such as board size, outside directors, ownership concentration, managerial ownership…

Status of corporate social responsibility in selected Nepalese companies

Dev Raj Adhikari

The paper aims to examine the status of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Nepalese companies.

Board characteristics and the financial performance of Nigerian quoted firms

Augustine Ujunwa

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of corporate board characteristics on the financial performance of Nigerian quoted firms. Board characteristics studied…

A framework of conscientious corporate brand – a South African validation

Marlene Bogaards, Mercy Mpinganjira, Göran Svensson, Tore Mysen

The purpose of this paper is to validate previous research in ethical branding by testing a conceptual framework on corporate branding using “the conscientious dimension”.

Board demographic diversity, independence, and corporate social performance

Lu Zhang

Drawing on agency theory and resource dependence theory, the study aims to link board demographic diversity and independence to corporate social performance.

Portfolio selection: does corporate governance matter?

Naima Lassoued, Ali Elmir

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether corporate governance has an impact on portfolio selection within the usual mean‐variance framework, the idea being that by reducing…

Transnational Multi‐Stakeholder Standardization: Organizing Fragile Non‐State Authority

S. Prakash Sethi