Journal of Corporate Finance 11 (2005) 85 – 106 www.elsevier.com/locate/econbase Additions to corporate boards: the effect of gender Kathleen A. Farrell a‚*‚ Philip L. Hersch b a Department of Finance‚ University of Nebraska-Lincoln‚ Lincoln‚ NE 68588-0490‚ USA b Department of Economics‚ Wichita State University‚ USA Received 1 November 2003; accepted 1 December 2003 Available online 20 April 2004 Abstract During the decade of the 1990s the number of women serving on corporate boards increased
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Corporate governance – Intended learning outcomes Students should be able to Identify different forms of corporate governance Evaluate the influence of organisational stakeholders on a firm’s purposes and performance Conduct stakeholder mapping Exhibit 4.1 Influences on strategic purpose Corporate Governance Corporate governance refers to the influence and power of the stakeholders to control the strategic direction of the organisation (Lynch‚ p.362) The chain of corporate governance:
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES According to the institute for Corporate Governance‚ Dubai‚ CG is ‘the system by which business corporations are directed and controlled.CG has received special attention from all over the world after scandals at Enron Corporation (USA)‚ The BCCI Bank (UK)‚ the Harshad Mehta Share Scam (India)‚ and Satyam Computer Services Limited (India). Furthermore‚ After the global financial meltdown (2007-10) it is evident that lack of stringent CG
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publicity and media opportunities due to media interest in ethical business activities. In this article‚ Michael Porter and Mark Kramer propose a fundamentally new way to look at the relationship between business and society that does not treat corporate growth and social welfare as a zero-sum game. They introduce a framework allows business to identify the social consequences by their actions; to discover opportunities to benefit society as well as themselves by strengthening the competitive context
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Chapter 1 Comparative Corporate Governance and Financial Goals End-of-Chapter Questions 1. Corporate goals: shareholder wealth maximization. Explain the assumptions and objectives of the shareholder wealth maximization pmodel. Answer: The Anglo-American markets have a philosophy that a firm’s objective should follow the shareholder wealth maximization (SWM) model. More specifically‚ the firm should strive to maximize the return to shareholders‚ as measured by the sum of capital gains and dividends
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE - ROLE OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS People often question whether corporate boards matter because their day-today impact is difficult to observe. But‚ when things go wrong‚ they can become the center of attention. Certainly this was true of the Enron‚ Worldcom‚ and Parmalat scandals. The directors of Enron and Worldcom‚ in particular‚ were held liable for the fraud that occurred: Enron directors had to pay $168 million to investor plaintiffs‚ of which $13 million was out of pocket
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Common themes in Corporate Governance Scandals According to ACCA (2014) “Corporate governance is the system by which companies are directed and controlled”‚ also the corporate governance definition in the ACCA (2014) and Financial Times (2015) are quite different but similar at the same time‚ “How a company is managed‚ in terms of the institutional systems and protocols meant to ensure accountability and sound ethics. The concept encompasses a variety of issues‚ including disclosure of information
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development. To achieve this‚ the key roles and duties of the board and its directors will be fully reviewed in light of current corporate governance concerns. This paper relies heavily on Review of The Role and Effectiveness of Non-executive Directors – Higgs Review – (2003) and the Combined Code on Corporate Governance (2006) for referencing. The Combined Code on Corporate Governance‚ 2006 states that “every company should be headed by an effective board‚ which is collectively responsible for the
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Find two examples of companies‚ products or organizations which display social responsibility: one which displays good social responsibility and one which displays poor social responsibility. For each‚ explain why you have this opinion of these firms. Read all posts before yours - no duplicates allowed‚ so if another student has already posted about your choices‚ change your example to some other firm. Early posts have priority. Then come back to the discussion and comment on the examples given
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MALAYSIAN CODE ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 2012 ii Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance 2012 Contents iii CONTENTS Foreword Corporate GovernanCe in Malaysia Corporate GovernanCe prinCiples and reCoMMendations principle 1: ESTAbLISh CLEAR ROLES AND RESPONSIbILITIES principle 2: STRENGThEN COMPOSITION principle 3: REINfORCE INDEPENDENCE principle 4: fOSTER COMMITMENT principle 5: UPhOLD INTEGRITY IN fINANCIAL REPORTING principle 6: RECOGNISE AND MANAGE RISkS v ix xiii 1-1 2-1
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