CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: THE INFLUENCE OF STRUCTURES‚ PROCESSES‚ AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY by Douglas A Peebles A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Capella University February 2007 UMI Number: 3253618 Copyright 2007 by Peebles‚ Douglas A. All rights reserved. UMI Microform 3253618 Copyright 2007 by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved. This microform edition is protected
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PAPER TOPIC: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND ETHICS Table of contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………3 Framework for understanding ethical decision making……………………………………………………………..5 Understanding the views of corporate governance…………………………………………………………….…...15 Corporate governance as a dimension of ethical decision making……………………………………….………...23 Corporate governance issues…………………………………………………………………………………
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Article 2 * Corporate Reputation – the most important company asset? * The current widespread public backlash against business and its perceived unethical practices has left industry leaders scrambling to protect and nurture their corporate reputations. While the concept of business having to earn its’ social – as well as its legal- licence to operate‚ is now well-entrenched with the major business leaders around the world‚ many now find themselves having to incorporate the two sources
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Chapter Title: Corporate Governance in Bangladesh 5.1 Prelude Corporate Governance‚ the most talked about phrase of today around the world‚ is a relatively new concept in South Asia. The extremely impressive growth rates from the mid 1980s to 1996‚ effected by prudent fiscal policies‚ booming export trade‚ high savings and investment and relatively good infrastructure of South-East and East Asian Corporate entities have left little to bother about governance. It was the financial crisis of
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Corporate Governance at WIPRO Table of Contents 1. What’s corporate governance 1 1.1 Definition 1 1.2 Meaning of corporate governess in legal environment. 2 1.3 Parties to corporate governance 2 1.4 Principles
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EFFECTIVE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Presented by: Alfesany Ahmed Complience Manager Pret A Manger Ltd. Birmingham‚ UK Contents Introduction Corporate Governance The importance of responsible Corporate governance The regulatory requirements that shapes the effective corporate governance in regulated company The impact of regulatory requirements on pret A manger stakeholders interests Conclusion Reference Pret a Manger was opened in Hampsted‚ London‚ UK in 1984 by Jeffrey Hyman
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Theories of Corporate Governance The philosophical foundations of corporate governance Edited by Thomas Clarke Contents Preface Acknowledgements ‘Introduction: Theories of Governance – Reconceptualizing Corporate Governance Theory After the Enron Experience’ Thomas Clarke PART 1 ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS ix xi 1 31 34 45 ‘The Managerial Revolution in American Business’ Alfred D. Chandler Jr ‘The Impact of the Corporation on Classical Economic Theory’ Adolf A. Berle PART 2 AGENCY THEORY
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the sum of its partsl CREATING CORPORATE ADVANTAGE BY DAVID J. COLLIS AND CYNTHIA A. MONTGOMERY M OST MULTIBUSINESS COMPANIES ARE the sum of their parts and nothing more. ^ Although executives have become more sophisticated in their understanding of what it takes to achieve competitive advantage at the level of individual businesses‚ when it comes to creating corporate advantage across multiple businesses‚ the news is far less encouraging. True‚ corporate executives face mounting pressure
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442 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE A Framework for Diagnosing Board Effectiveness* Gavin J. Nicholson** and Geoffrey C. Kiel Pressure on boards to improve corporate performance and management oversight has led to a series of inquiries and reports advocating governance reform. These reports largely reflect an agency perspective of governance and seek to ensure greater board independence from and control of management. While board independence is important to good governance‚ we contend that frameworks
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By looking at Morrison’s Corporate Governance we can see that a lot of work has been done during the year in order to comply with each of the point of the UK Corporate Governance Code. Effectiveness of the Board was considered within the context of three key criteria: * Ability to achieve its objectives with regard to company strategy * Ability to work together effectively * Ability to maximise its use of time There also was some training received by the Board during the year on different
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