Corporate Governance: Volume 6 Issue 3

A failed strategy of using voluntary codes of conduct by the global mining industry

This paper aims to focus on an analysis of industry‐based voluntary codes of conduct in the international arena with special reference to the operations of the global mining…

Illusions of compliance and governance

This article aims to place recent corporate governance reforms in the historical context of the good corporate citizenship movement that began in the US in the mid‐1990s and came…

Beyond public relations: bringing the rule of law to corporate codes of conduct in the global economy

This paper aims to examine the impact of a US law, called Alien Tort Statute (ATS), on the overseas operations of multinational corporations with regard to human rights abuses…

Justice, management, and governance

The object of this paper is to examine the debate in business ethics over extending insights from political philosophy (e.g. theories of distributive justice) to address questions…

Relationships between board structure and takeover defenses

As corporations continue to face substantial information asymmetries between managers and shareholders, they must decide how to mitigate this agency problem using various…

Corporate governance and strategic transparency: East Asia in the international business systems

This paper aims at discussing the determinants of strategic transparency and the governance structure of the East Asian firms. The relatively weak institutional infrastructure in…

Enlarged EU: enlarged corporate governance? Why directives might be more appropriate for transition economies

This paper seeks to illustrate the development of corporate governance issues in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and to analyze if codes based on…

Corporate governance, shareholder value and societal expectations

This purpose of this paper is to examine four separate though interconnected questions concerning corporations operating, in Anglo American jurisdictions.

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