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The code of corporate governance in Nigeria: Efficiency gains or social legitimation
(2012)
This paper is the first study which examines the rationale behind the adoption of corporate governance codes, the requirements of the codes and their operationalisation, and the effectiveness of the codes in addressing ...
Corporate governance in the Nigerian banking industry: Towards a strategic governmental engagement
(2012)
The recent global economic crisis has led to reduced confidence in
the self-regulation of banks and has facilitated a debate on how governments
across the world intend to engage with the corporate governance of banks. ...
Corporate governance regulation in Nigeria
(2012)
Purpose – Whilst taking Nigeria’s peculiar institutional configurations into consideration, this paper aims to critically evaluate the Nigerian corporate governance regulatory system, which is characterised by endemic ...
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 ...
Institutions and institutional maintenance implications for understanding and theorizing corporate governance in developing economies
(Taylor and Francis, 2012-12-08)
This study is a data-driven attempt to explain why corporate governance
systems remain largely unchanged despite regulatory reforms, especially
in developing economies. It employs a qualitative research method triangulation
to ...
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 ...