Fiduciary Responsibility of Board Trustees and Officers in Universities and CollegesCorporate Governance (Bingley) - Tập 1 Số 4 - Trang 12-19 - 2001
Dennis L.Payette
Examines the use and misuse of the term fiduciary responsibility as it applies to trustees and officers of the corporation in universities and colleges. Through research on published applications of the term, reveals that the term is rarely defined yet frequently used as a justification for action or inaction by trustees and officers. Antagonists of decisions sometimes use the term as a ra...... hiện toàn bộ
Maximizing social return in the banking sectorCorporate Governance (Bingley) - Tập 11 Số 3 - Trang 274-284 - 2011
FrancescRelaño
PurposeThe aim of this paper is to show that there are other options for a firm (or a bank) than just following the mainstream logic of maximizing financial profits. This is the case of the so‐called “social banks”, which appeared in the mid‐1980s. Unlike the “financial green‐washing” of traditional banks, soci...... hiện toàn bộ
Wheeling and dealingCorporate Governance (Bingley) - - 2004
P. ScottScherrer
This article addresses strategies used by creditors to take control of businesses in bankruptcy. The creditors are able to convert their debt to equity ownership by acquiring a significant amount of the companies’ outstanding debt and then controlling the bankruptcy process. The article provides an example of this process. Further, the risks concomitant with the debt acquisition strategy a...... hiện toàn bộ
UK, Russia, Kazakhstan and Cyprus governance comparedCorporate Governance (Bingley) - - 2012
JokullJohannesson, IrynaPalona, Jose FranciscoSalazar Guillen, MichaelFock
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the corporate governance standards of Cyprus, Russia, and Kazakhstan to those of the UK to facilitate investment decisions. The paper aims to discover governance gaps creating a potential for alignment to UK standards....... hiện toàn bộ
Evaluating corporate board cultures and decision makingCorporate Governance (Bingley) - - 2002
BruceCutting, AlexanderKouzmin
This paper relies on a “trinity of menetypes” of group knowing which captures the essential decision‐making dynamics of board membership. Formal, corporate decision‐making processes require higher commitments of time and cognitive energy of directors – certainly, the requirement is of non‐executive directors to make more formal contributions to the “political” process that determines corpo...... hiện toàn bộ
CEO turnover and firm performance, evidence from ThailandCorporate Governance (Bingley) - - 2012
ParichartRachpradit, John C.S.Tang, DoBa Khang
PurposeThis paper seeks to examine the relationship between chief executive officer (CEO) turnover and firm performance and the moderating effects of ownership structure and board structure with respect to listed non‐financial companies in Thailand.... hiện toàn bộ
Joint management‐stakeholder committees – a new path to stakeholder governance?Corporate Governance (Bingley) - Tập 11 Số 5 - Trang 560-568 - 2011
HeikoSpitzeck, Erik G.Hansen, DavidGrayson
PurposeThis paper aims to describe the emerging practice of joint management‐stakeholder‐committees (JMSCs) in which corporate executives take decisions in collaboration with stakeholders.Design/methodology/approach... hiện toàn bộ
Creating a living culture: the challenges for business leadersCorporate Governance (Bingley) - - 2003
JanThornbury
One of the leadership responsibilities of the board of directors is to establish a statement of values and to ensure that these guiding principles become a basis for action throughout the organization. Where companies do not have a statement of values, or where the values are not accepted, there is a real danger that company staff will act in their own interests, not in the interests of th...... hiện toàn bộ