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Corporate community involvement disclosures in annual report: A measure of corporate community development or a signal of CSR observance?
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012-05)
The purpose of this study is to examine whether corporate community involvement disclosures (CCID) in annual reports can be construed as a measure of corporate community development (CCD) or a mere signal of corporate ...
Neither principles nor rules: Making corporate governance work in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Springer, 2016-05-23)
Corporate governance is often split between rulebased
and principle-based approaches to regulation in different
institutional contexts. This split is often informed by the
types of institutional configurations, their ...
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 ...
Corporate Governance and Elites
(Elsevier, 2017-11-20)
Using a qualitative methodology (interviews), we examine the relationship between the effectiveness of corporate governance mechanisms and elitist interventions. In doing this, we identify three elitist groups – political, ...
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 ...
Impact of board independence on the quality of community disclosures in annual reports
(Elsevier, 2015-06-22)
This study investigates the link between board independence and the quality of community
disclosures in annual reports. Using content analysis and a panel dataset from UK FTSE
350 companies the results indicate a ...
Shareholder protection, stock markets and cross-border mergers
(Elsevier, 2018-07-10)
This paper is the first one that uses a panel data of different types of shareholder protection in order to examine (i) the effect of such laws on stock market development and (ii) the convergence of shareholder protection ...
Antecedents of voluntary corporate governance disclosure: A post-2007/08 financial crisis evidence from the influential UK Combined Code
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016-03-23)
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of compliance with, and disclosure of, good corporate governance (CG) practices among UK publicly listed firms and consequently ascertain whether board ...
Will Africapitalism work?
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)
Africapitalism suggests a refined capitalist system aimed at achieving collective good unlike
the shareholder value maximisation model of Anglo-American capitalism. It emphasises the
obligations of the private sector in ...
