Corporate Governance in Hong Kong 1. Corporate Governance in Hong Kong Hong Kong’s position as an international economic and financial center is attributed to its exemplary corporate governance. With Hong Kong’s various authorities and regulatory bodies emphasizing on transparency and accountability for listed companies‚ Hong Kong was ranked first for corporate governance among 11 Asian countries in 2007. (Refer to Appendix 1) The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK) describes corporate
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BUSINESS ETHICS & CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OCS AGENDA • Understanding Ethics • Managing Business Ethics • Corporate Social Responsibility • Complexity of Ethical Issues • Ethical Leadership • Evaluation of Corporate Governance • Internal & External Corporate Governance mechanisms • Corporate Governance Ratings OCS Scams OCS Values • Fundamental beliefs • Principles for good‚ right and just • Evaluate something vis-à-vis a Standard • Integrity‚ Patriotism‚ Fairness OCS Morals • Values attributing
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Corporate Governance regime in the UK As a result of the banking crisis‚ a review of the corporate governance regime in the UK was carried out by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). The review resulted in two principal changes to the regime. Following a review of the Combined Code on Corporate Governance‚ the FRC issued a new edition of the Code- the “UK Corporate Governance Code”. The UK Corporate Governance Code applies for accounting periods beginning on or after 29 June 2010 and is the key
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & RISK MANAGEMENT July 2012 Agenda 1 What is Corporate Governance? 2 What is Risk Management? 3 How do they intersect ? 4 Why is Risk Governance important - What is consequence of failure? 5 What to do (how do we respond?) 5 Discussion 2 1 WHAT IS CORPORATE GOVERNANCE? Corporate Governance • What is Corporate Governance? • There are many definitions. The CBN Code of Corporate Governance defines it as follows: • Corporate governance refers to the processes and
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MTV make use of their global strategy and corporate governance in order to maintain their competitive advantages in the next three till five years?” LG1 What is a global strategy and what types do you have? (Pros/Cons + Cultural and Ethical aspects) Source 1: Hill‚ J. & Jones R. (2010)‚ Theory of Strategic Management‚ Ch. 8‚ South- Western: Cengage Learning Source 2: Johnsen‚ G. Scholes‚ K. & Whittington‚ R. (2008)‚ Prentice Hall Exploring Corporate Strategy 8th edition‚ Ch. 13‚ Pearson Education
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prominent role in utilization of all these resources‚ governance or public governance plays a vital role in sustainable development of the society. Governance‚ as it is said relates to decisions that define expectations‚ grant power or verify performance. It consists either of a separate process or of a specific part of management or leadership processes. Sometimes people set up a government to administer these processes and systems.1 Public governance is more complex but important in all kinds of society
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE [pic] BY SHIRLENE KOLA-BANKOLE 03005093 CLIMATE CHANGE AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE “We believe Climate Change is one of the most significant environmental challenges of the 21st century... voluntary action alone cannot solve the problem.” Henry Paulson‚ CHAIRMAN‚ GOLDMAN SACHS INTRODUCTION Environmental challenges‚ particularly climate change are something we all have to think about. Politicians from David Cameron to Gordon
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THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE • VOL. LXVII‚ NO. 1 • FEBRUARY 2012 Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance BENJAMIN E. HERMALIN and MICHAEL S. WEISBACH∗ ABSTRACT Public policy discussions typically favor greater corporate disclosure as a way to reduce firms’ agency problems. This argument is incomplete because it overlooks that better disclosure regimes can also aggravate agency problems and related costs‚ including executive compensation. Consequently‚ a point can exist beyond which additional
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Global Transformations: Politics‚ Economics and Culture. Cambridge: Polity. 1-31 R Roulier‚ ¡§Governance Issues and Banking System Soundness¡¨‚ Banking Soundness and Monetary Policy‚ International Monetary Fund (1997) at 450 Justin O¡¦Brien‚ ¡§Governing the Corporation¡¨‚ Publisher Weliy 2005‚ Chapter 2 Stephen S Cohen and Gavin Boyd ¡§Corporate Governance and Corporate Performance¡¨‚ Corporate Governance and Globalisation: Long Range Planning Issues‚ Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (2000) at 59 ¡V 94
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stake and how we choose or priorities between them. An ethical approach to a problem will enquire about end-results and the route or means we use to achieve these objectives together with the relationship between the two (‘end versus means’). Corporate Governance can be defined as a proper structure of rules and practices‚ a reference point to return to where decision making is influenced which invariably helps a company run smoothly reducing confusion‚ ambiguity and ultimately risk. Shareholders own
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