Deregulation Process, Governance Structures and Efficiency: The U.S. Electric Utility Sector

Deregulation, Governance Structures, and Efficiency: the U.s. Electric Utility Sector

The business strategy literature offers apparently opposite views of the ability of vertical integration to cope with the uncertainty related to changing regulatory environments. In this paper, we analyze how the process of retail deregulation affects the comparative efficiency of governance structures, which range on a continuum from fully vertically integrated structures to market transaction...

Deregulation and Environmental Differentiation in the Electric Utility Industry

DEREGULATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL DIFFERENTIATION IN THE ELECTRIC UTILITY INDUSTRY MAGALI DELMAS,* MICHAEL V. RUSSO and MARIA J. MONTES-SANCHO 1 Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A. 2 Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A. 3 Department of Business Administration, University of Ca...

A Future of Green Power: Impact of the Electric Utility Deregulation in America

Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: Evidence from the US Banking Sector

There is a distinct lack of research into the relationship between corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the banking sector. This paper fills the gap in the literature by examining the impact of corporate governance, with particular reference to the role of board of directors, on the quality of CSR disclosure in US listed banks’ annual reports after the US sub-prime ...

Governance in the pharmaceutical sector

Where do we go from here? While risk equalisation has been given legal backing by the Irish High Court and the European Court of First Instance, the Supreme Court judgment is still awaited, and it remains to be seen whether the Court of First Instance judgment will be appealed to the European Court of Justice. Further legal challenges are also pending in the Irish courts, and Sean Quinn, Chairm...