Category Archives: 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 [...]
Filed under Corporate Governance, Finance
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 [...]
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 [...]
Filed under Articles, Corporate Governance
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 [...]
Filed under Corporate Governance, Free Cases
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 [...]
Filed under Corporate Governance, Short Case Studies
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 [...]
Filed under Articles, Corporate Governance, Economics, Finance