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Spatio-Temporal Audit of Nigeria's Industrial Policies and Entrepreneurship Development Interventions from 1946 to 2013
(International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2014-01-01)
Spatio-Temporal Auditing (STA) entails a critical examination of performance of economic policies and development programmes within a defined context, space and time. This paper employs the STA to critique Nigeria’s ...
Assessing the Relationship between Sales Quotas and Moral Judgement of Insurance Salespersons: The Moderating Effects of Moral Values, Quota Failure Consequences, and Corporate Ethical Climate
(Journal of Emerging Trends in Economics and Management Sciences, 2013)
There is an increasing call for managers in the Nigerian insurance industry to espouse higher level of ethical behaviour to earn the trust of customers, regulatory agencies, and other stakeholders. Arguably, this will ...
Institutional shareholder activism in Nigeria: An accountability perspective
(Elsevier, 2016-03-30)
Research has identified institutional shareholders and shareholders’ associations as separate groups that are able to interact and promote accountability through shareholder activism. This study employs a qualitative ...
Regulatory multiplicity and conflict: Towards a combined code on corporate governance in Nigeria.
(Spinger, 2014-09-26)
Given the multiplicity of codes designed to
regulate different stakeholders in terms of promoting good
corporate governance, this paper examines areas of conflicts
among the various codes and the associated implications
for ...
Institutional shareholder activism in Nigeria
(Emerald, 2016)
Abstract
Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to investigate institutional shareholder activism in Nigeria. It addresses the paucity of empirical research on institutional shareholder activism in
sub-Saharan Africa.
D ...
Good corporate governance in Nigeria: Antecedents, propositions and peculiarities
(Elsevier, 2014-08-30)
Relying on an alternative theoretical framework (i.e. institutional theory), rather than the dominant
agency theory, this paper examines the connections between corporate governance mechanisms and
good practices, as ...
A Review of Internal and External Influences on Corporate Governance and Financial Accountability in Nigeria
(Inderscience, 2015)
No country exists in isolation, and as developing countries like
Nigeria aspire to ‘international’ standards of accountability and governance
suited to the developed economies, they are confronted with the reality that ...
Corporate social responsibility in challenging and non-enabling institutional contexts do institutional voids matter?
(Springer, 2014-10-14)
The extant literature on comparative Corporate
Social Responsibility (CSR) often assumes functioning and
enabling institutional arrangements, such as strong government,
market and civil society, as a necessary condition
for ...
Corporate Social Responsibility in SMEs: a shift from philanthropy to institutional works?
(2015-03-31)
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) amongst Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is often characterised in the literature as unstructured, informal, and ad hoc discretionary philanthropic activities. Drawing insights from ...
The politics of shareholder activism in Nigeria
(Springer, 2012)
Shareholder activism has become a force for
good in the extant corporate governance literature. In this
article, we present a case study of Nigeria to show how
shareholder activism, as a corporate governance mechanism,
can ...