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Multiple Influences on Corporate Governance Practice in Nigeria: Agents, Strategies and Implications
(Elsevier, 2012-09-17)
The literature on the convergence of corporate governance systems across different
institutional contexts has often taken the role of ‘agents of convergence’ for granted.
Against this background, we examine the influences ...
The Inefficacy of Private Enforcement of Directors' Duties
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-10-24)
Company directors play an important role in society. Their activities have significant effects on the interests of their companies, shareholders and other stakeholders. Consequently, the law regards them as fiduciaries and ...
Criminal Enforcement of Directors' Occupational Crimes in Nigeria: Issues and Challenges
(SAGE, 2018-07-25)
The issue of enforcement has concerned economists, legal practitioners and criminologists over the years. Where criminal conduct is concerned, enforcement is often considered necessary to punish current offenders and deter ...
Entrepreneurship education service and socio-economic development in sub-Saharan Africa
(Routledge, 2018-07-31)
This chapter draws from two recent education projects in Africa to provide an analysis and implications of entrepreneurship education service provision as a peace-building effort, and a pathway to raising the human capital ...
Technological constraints to firm performance: the moderating effects of firm linkages and cooperation
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019-02-11)
Manufacturing and services SMEs in Africa face challenges and constraints exacerbated by ineffectual government policies, environmental turbulence and the near-absence of institutional support. This study investigates if ...
Determinants of the informal economy of an emerging economy: a multiple indicator, multiple causes (MIMIC) approach
(Inderscience, 2016-05-18)
Positing the implementation of evidenced-based policies to manage the informal economy, our paper employs, in a novel way, the multiple-cause, multiple-indicator model and primary data, to identify the determinants of the ...
Revisiting the Mediating Effect of Normative Commitment Relationships in Nigeria
(Emerald, 2020-04)
Purpose: This study examines the mediating effect of normative commitment, that is, a customer’s feeling of moral obligation to stay in a relationship based on the psychological feeling that it is the right thing to do. ...
Sub-national involvement in Nigeria's Foreign Relations Law: An appraisal of the heterodoxy between theory and practice
(Edinburgh University Press, 2021-02-01)
Nations, in their interaction with the international system, usually have in place a legal regime governing the external exercise of the powers of the State. This regime Curtis Bradley describes as the foreign relations ...
The Case for Public Enforcement of Directors’ Duties: An Australian Case Study and Application to Nigeria
(Kluwer Law International, 2020-01)
Like many other common law countries, Nigeria imposes statutory duties on its companies’ directors. Breach of these duties are expected to be enforced ‘privately’ by the company, its shareholders or any other proper person. ...
Corruption Fights Back: Localizing Transparency and EITI in the Nigerian ‘Penkelemes’
(Wiley Online Library, 2020-08-07)
This study explores how the global transparency norm is localized in the Nigerian extractive industry. Transparency is theorised as a process which can be analysed in terms of rules, interactions, power games and context. ...