Most corporate governance research focuses on the behavior of chief executive officers, board members, institutional shareholders, and other similar parties. Little research focuses on the impact of executives whose primary responsibility is to enforce and shape corporate governance inside the firm. This study examines the role of the general counsel (GC) in mitigating informed trading by corpo...

Scandals of corporate governance in the United States and Europe in the aftermath of theTMTbubblecaptured thepublic imagination. Inplay were the interests of senior executives in relation to investors, prompting debate over countries’ standards of corporate governance in the global market place. Ahold was (and is) an especially important instance, involving significant internal accounting and r...

The focus of this study is to investigate the constraints and barriers in managerial efficiency of corporate sector in Pakistan, not only for the better results of the corporate but also for the whole economy. A comparison of Pakistani corporate sector is made with 32 low income countries. Corruption, crime, gender, finance, infrastructure, innovation of technology, are the major constraints fo...

Obwohl zunehmend integrierte Ansätze für Corporate Governance, Ri-siko-und Compliance-Management (GRC) gefordert werden, ist weitestgehend unklar, welche Anforderungen ein solcher Ansatz erfüllen sollte. Dieser Beitrag arbeitet daher Anforderungen an einen strategischen GRC-Management-Ansatz heraus und diskutiert diese anhand einschlägiger Theorien.

This paper presents estimates from a latent variables model of the relation between corporate governance and financial performance. We use data on large US corporations to estimate the correlation, conditional on the firms’ investment opportunity set, between governance and performance. We find that this correlation is statistically speaking zero. This result is consistent with the “equilibrium...

This research had investigated ownership structure and its impact on CEO compensation system in TSX/S&P and NYSE indexes companies from the period 2005 to 2010. The totaled of two hundred and forty companies were selected through random sample method. The research question for this study was: is there a relationship between CEO compensation, firm size, accounting firm performance, and corporate...

This study reviews the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate governance on its credit rating. The result of regression analysis to credit ratings with relevant primary independent variables shows that both factors have significant effects on it. As we have predicted, the signs of both regression coefficients have a positive sign (+) proving that corporates with excellent...