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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examples resulting in topics on corporate Governance and Business Ethics being included by many universities and autonomous institutions in their curriculum post liberalization. January 7‚ 2009 will be etched in the annals of India ’s corporate history as it brought to light one of the biggest scams in India. It was on this day that chairman B Ramalinga Raju of Satyam Computer Services considered to be one of the torchbearers of India ’s new economy‚ confessed to a corporate fraud amounting to Rs 7
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CORPORATE HISTORY. Akio Morita‚ Masaru Ibuka‚ and Tamon Maeda (Ibuka’s father- in- law) started Tokyo telecommunications Engineering in 1946 with funding from Morita’s father’s sake business. The company produced the first Japanese tape recorder in 1950. Three years later‚ Morita paid Western Electric (US) $25‚000 for transistor technology licenses‚ which sparked a consumer electronics revolution in Japan. His firm launched one of the first transistor radios in 1955‚ followed by the first
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Introduction Corporate governance can be defined as a combination of fairness‚ precision‚ accountability and sustainability of corporate behavior. Good Corporate governance is a key factor to achieve the improved performance of an organization. It is fundamental element to safeguard interest of shareholders. For continuous and sustainable growth of an organization‚ there is no alternative to effective Corporate Governance. The positive effect of corporate governance on different stakeholders ultimately
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subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t791720496 Comparative and International Corporate Governance Ruth V. Aguileraa; Gregory Jacksonb a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign‚ b Freie Universität Berlin‚ First published on: 05 July 2010 To cite this Article Aguilera‚ Ruth V. and Jackson‚ Gregory(2010) ’Comparative and International Corporate Governance’‚ The Academy of Management Annals‚ 4: 1‚ 485 — 556‚ First published on: 05 July 2010 (iFirst) To link to
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Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences April 2013‚ Vol. 3‚ No. 4 ISSN: 2222-6990 Corporate Governance- Issues and Challenges in Pakistan Beenish Ameer Department of Management Sciences‚ Abbasia Campus‚ Islamia University of Bahawalpur‚ Pakistan E-mail:beenishameer14@gmail.com Abstract Purpose: Pakistani companies are crucial for attaining the better position in the global market by adopting the actual concept of corporate governance. Corporate governance is a worldwide
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To what extent are the banks of Mauritius complying with the national code of corporate governance? CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Sir Adrian Cadbury (2002) stated that corporate governance is “the direction and control process within an organization”. Corporate governance is a systematic approach of controlling and monitoring a business operation. The term corporate governance has came to light in the 19th Century when the theory of separation of ownership and control developed.
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Center for International Private Enterprise ECONOMICREFORM Feature Service® January 12‚ 2006 Business Ethics: The Essential Component of Corporate Governance John D. Sullivan‚ Ph.D. Executive Director‚ CIPE Aleksandr Shkolnikov‚ Program Officer‚ Global‚ CIPE Given financial scandals and the resulting new mandates on business‚ firms find themselves pressed to develop strong codes of ethics to guide the behavior of board members‚ managers‚ and employees. Although the concern with ethics has always
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of Directors in Corporate Governance and Policy Making A B S T R A C T Corporate governance covers a large number of distinct concepts‚ legal systems and structures and processes that establishes best practices in the high-level direction and control of a corporation by the Board of Directors and Corporate Management. The conduct and performance of Corporate Governance (CG) in the Philippines for publicly listed corporations is implemented under the Code of Corporate Governance promulgated by
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of corporate governance rests on the theory of self regulation as the most efficient means to achieve corporate self-control in the marketplace. However‚ that model fails to achieve regular compliance with baseline ethical and legal behaviours as evidenced by a century of repeated corporate debacles‚ the most recent being Lehman’s Brothers. Lehman’s Brothers Holdings Inc was a global financial services firm who provided services like investment banking‚ equity and fixed income sales‚ research and
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