Corporate Governance: Volume 11 Issue 2

Audit regulatory reform with a refined stakeholder model to enhance corporate governance: Hong Kong evidence

Philip Law

Recent corporate scandals have resulted in a greater focus on business ethics and governance. The purpose of this study is to examine whether the existing audit regulatory…

Evaluating corporate governance and identifying its formulating factors: the case of Greece

Themistokles Lazarides, Evaggelos Drimpetas

This paper seeks to establish a benchmark for the evaluation of the quality of corporate governance (CG) and to detect the factors that affect it in Greece.

An exploratory study of the historical landscape of corporate social responsibility in the UK

Samuel O. Idowu

This paper aims to piece together chronologically the events and revolutionary acts that have been taken by groups of individuals, entrepreneurs/industrialists and corporate…

Small and large firm regulatory costs: the case of the Sarbanes‐Oxley Act

James A. Millar, B. Wade Bowen

As a result of scandals concerning major financial crime in the early twenty‐first century, including accounting and auditing fraud and inappropriate behavior by directors on the…

Corporate governance practices and auditor's client acceptance decision: empirical evidence from Egypt

Ibrahim El‐Sayed Ebaid

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of corporate governance practices on auditors' decisions (judgments), especially, the client acceptance decision in Egypt, where…

Corporate governance in a developing economy: barriers, issues, and implications for firms

John O. Okpara

Effective corporate governance is significant for firms in developing countries because it can lead to managerial excellence and help firms with a weak corporate governance…

Corporate governance and board equity ownership

Teresa M. Pergola, Gilbert W. Joseph

This study aims to test empirically the relationship between board equity ownership and corporate governance on earnings quality of for‐profit corporations, to help practitioners…

Revisiting ethics in strategic management

John McManus

The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges faced by corporations in incorporating ethics into their strategic management processes.