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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[pic] Corporate governance developments in the UK Corporate governance developments in the UK are summarised as follows: Initial corporate governance developments in the UK began in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the wake of corporate scandals such as Polly Peck and Maxwell. Financial reporting irregularities led to the establishment of the ‘Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance Committee’ led by Sir Adrian Cadbury. The resulting Cadbury Report published in 1992 outlined a number
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Corporate Governance in UK Table of Contents 1. history 3 1.1 Developments since 1979 6 2. evolution of corporate governance 8 2.1 Cadbury Report (1992) 8 2.2 Greenbury Report (1995) 9 2.3 Hampel Report (1998) 9 2.4 Combined Code (1998) 10 2.5 Turnbull Report (1999) 11 2.6 Myners: Review of Institutional Investment (2001) 11 2.7 Higgs Report (2003) 12 2.8 Smith Report (2003) 12 2.9 Revised Combined Code (2003) 13 2.10 Myners Report (2004) 14 2.11 Financial
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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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WHAT IS CORPORATE GOVERNANCE? Nowadays people in the business world are talking about good corporate governance. Companies with good corporate governance are perceived by the public as a company that been handled properly by its management. Few companies had been names as among the worst in corporate governance like Enron‚ World.com and Barings. But what is exactly corporate governance? The term ‘corporate governance’ is coming from two words. The adjective ‘corporate’ comes from the noun
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Corporate Governance What were the failures in the Madoff’s affair ? Minor : Management‚ Technology and Entrepreneurship Students : ..................................... Rémi Caroff Ha-Phong Nguyen Hamza Sehaqui Professor :............................... Matthias Finger Lausanne‚ Spring 2013 Corporate governance | Bernard Madoff case Table of content 1. Introduction and problem statement ................................................................................................. 1
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Discuss the evolution of Corporate Governance in Malaysia before the year 2000(Not more than 500 words) B. Challenges and changes in Corporate Governance since 2000(Not more than 700 words) C. Give an overview of Malaysian Corporate Governance Code 2012(CG Code 2012) (Not more than 300 words) D. Discuss in detail‚ the salient features of Principle 1‚2‚ 6 and 7 of the Malaysian CG Code 2012(Not more than 1‚000 words) 1. Discuss the evolution of Corporate Governance in Malaysia before the year
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Working Paper May 2008 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND THE TIMELINESS OF FINANCIAL REPORTING: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Robert W. McGee‚ Florida International University Xiaoli Yuan‚ California State University‚ East Bay ABSTRACT Timeliness of financial reporting is one of the attributes of good corporate governance identified by the OECD and World Bank. Shareholders and other stakeholders need information while it is still fresh and the more time that passes between year-end
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What are the key characteristics of the U.S. model of corporate governance? How does the U.K. model compare with the diverse models in continental Europe and differ to the US model? There are many characteristics of the U.S. model of corporate governance that contribute to its effectiveness. We describe governance in regards to the board of directors‚ external auditors‚ the SEC‚ state laws‚ and stock exchanges. We then compare the U.S. governance model to that of U.K. and other models in continental
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Relevance of Corporate Governance for emerging economies More research is needed to better understand the many aspects of the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance in emerging markets. Published research is limited. But‚ because emerging market firms are generally affiliated with multiple networks connected by formal or informal ties‚ the structures themselves present challenges for quantification and scientific data analysis. Recent corporate governance research has
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