Corporate Governance: Volume 1 Issue 1

Role and Contribution of Non‐Executive Directors

Andrew Kakabadse, Keith Ward, Nada Korac‐Kakabadse, Cliff Bowman

The paper presents the results of a study based on an extensive number of interviews and focus group discussions conducted with non‐executive directors (NEDs), executive and…

A view from the top: women on the boards of public companies

Alison Sheridan

In this paper, women’s representation on public boards in Australia is explored from two perspectives. First, a gender profile of board membership is developed from the public…

Financial distress and corporate governance: an empirical analysis

Fathi Elloumi, Jean‐Pierre Gueyié

Relationships between corporate governance characteristics and financial distress status are examined for a sample of Canadian firms. Results from logit regression analysis of 46…

Board governance and company performance: any correlations?

Nada Korac‐Kakabadse, Andrew K. Kakabadse, Alexander Kouzmin

There persists the belief that a firm’s only responsibility to society is to maximize profits without breaking the law, hence the role of corporate governance is to provide…

Governance and organisational controls in public and private banks

Peter Kangis, Peter Kareklis

Managers of a sample of private and public banks in Greece were surveyed through the vehicle of agency theory. It was found that managers in private banks showed greater alignment…

Let’s pretend we’re a corporation: an introduction to the academic/corporate convergence

J.W. Sora

There is a growing perception that higher education increasingly follows what Cary Nelson calls the business or “Industry .. handbook of relevant strategies and techniques” of…