Corporate Governance of Taiwan: Substantial Director Focused

Independent Director System: An Assistant Mechanism of Corporate Governance

As a system arrangement of the corporate governance, the independent director system has many deficiencies such as the residual claimant right doesn’t correspond with the control right, the information occupations are not symmetric, the time and energy are not deficient, and the encouragement is not sufficient. In the practice that China introduces the independent director system, many obstacle...

Board Independence and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Director Resignations

Board Independence and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Director Resignations. (May 2005) Manu Gupta, B.E., South Gujarat University; M.I.B., Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. L. Paige Fields As evident from recent changes in NYSE and Nasdaq listing requirements, board independence is considered an important constituent of firms’ corporate governance structur...

The influence of board of director networks and corporate governance on firm performance and CEO compensation

Director Ownership, Governance, and Performance

We study the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on the relationship between corporate governance and company performance. We consider five measures of corporate governance during the period 1998-2007. We find a negative and significant relationship between board independence and operating performance during the pre-2002 period, but a positive and significant relationship during the post-2002 pe...

Corporate Governance

The module will examine the ongoing convergence of the corporate and market laws in relation to the universal issues in doing international business ethically. We will review the corporate governance mechanisms, the methods of expropriating investors and the current reforms of ensuring corporate control and diminishing of the level of corporate abuse. Topics covered include comparative corporat...