Category Archives: Corporate Governance

Case Studies on Corporate Governance

The corporate governance of an organisation managing Islamic charitable endowments (waqfs)

Charitable endowments (known in Arabic as waqfs) or pious endowments (Behrens-Abouseif, 1994) have their roots in the charitable donation of assets. This Islamically-based financial tool has been utilised to fund large-scale projects. The underlying principle of the charitable endowment is [...]

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Will Wall Street Redefine The MBA Curriculum?

Management courses at business schools have always been the subject of much debate and discussion. Schools have had to modify and adapt to constantly changing economic demands, but 2010 might just be the most game changing yet. Today, we are well [...]

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Anglo American: Setting new standards of Business ethics and corporate social responsibility

Anglo American is a world leader in mining. It is a UK-based plc that operates in many countries around the globe, including Africa, Europe and the UK. It extracts metals, such as copper and platinum, and coal and its Tarmac [...]

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Risk Intelligent Governance

This publication provides information on the board's role in risk oversight and includes six areas of focus coupled with action-oriented steps to take, along with questions for management, and tools that may help a board execute on its risk oversight [...]

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Transforming group strategy using Enterprise Risk Management

RSA (formerly Royal & SunAlliance) has enjoyed a remarkable turnaround in its fortunes in the past few years. After experiencing what the Financial Times described as a “near death experience” in 2002, it has recorded several years of increased profitability, [...]

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Corporate Governance and Competition: A Case Study with Indian Perspective

The aim of this case study is to show the interaction effect of product market competition and corporate governance variables on firm performance. While the linkage between internal governance mechanism and firm performance is well established in several studies, the [...]

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Corporate Governance: Role of independent directors

In today's time the independent directors play an important role in the company but whether these independent directors can play an effective role has, however, always been a matter for dispute. This case study reveals that the legal framework and share [...]

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Corporate Governance: The power of shareholders

Michael Eisner of Disney and Sir Philip Watts of Shell have both been forced to relinquish their roles as chairman. These changes have been chalked up as victories for shareholders. But have investors really got the better of the imperial [...]

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Corporate Governance: a theoretical approach

This paper pretends to do a theoretical approach of Corporate Governance, having as support some case studies about companies like Coca-Cola, Nokia, Microsoft, and Amazon.com. The methodology adopted for this work is based in information from these companies available in their [...]

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Costs Are Cool: The Strategic Value of Economic Clarity

For most nonprofit organizations, the art of making tradeoffs is a condition of survival as well as a key element of success. With limited means to address substantial social challenges, nonprofit leaders constantly make choices about the most effective way [...]

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