Corporate Governance: Volume 5 Issue 5

Corporate social responsibility in Portugal: empirical evidence of corporate behaviour

Rute Abreu, Fátima David, David Crowther

The purpose of this research is to explore corporate social responsibility (CSR) evidence and, especially, the experience and practice of enterprises in Portugal.

Business innovations and structure of corporate ownership in Ukraine

Alexander Kostyuk

The purpose of this paper is to test a link between the type of corporate ownership and business innovation activities, with application to Ukrainian joint stock companies.

The enactment of corporate governance guidelines: an empirical examination

Michael Rubach, Armand Picou

The purpose of this paper is to examine the stock price reaction to the first announcement in SEC filings of the enactment of corporate governance guidelines. Agency and…

The relevance to international mergers of the ethical perspectives of participants

Greg Wood

International mergers are becoming more widespread among medium‐sized companies that for decades have held a prime position in their home country market, but who now feel…

Stakeholder relationships: the dialogue of engagement

David Foster, Jan Jonker

This paper seeks to analyse the nature of the communication process involving stakeholders in a working relationship with organisations. While most research has been undertaken to…

The complex relation between director independence and board effectiveness

L.A.A. Van den Berghe, Tom Baelden

Throughout the world, reform initiatives have been set up to fix perceived and actual corporate governance shortcomings. One of the proposed remedies has been to improve the…

Antecedents and consequences of failed governance: the Enron example

Meredith Downes, Gail S. Russ

The purpose of this paper is to examine the demise of Enron, one of the most curious aspects of which was that on the surface it appeared to be thriving, giving no one any cause…

Corporate Social Responsibility Failures in the Oil Industry

Rory Sullivan