PUBLIC OFFERING OF SHARES – A PERSPECTIVE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Stakeholder Theory , Corporate Governance and Public Management

This paper raises a challenge for those who assume that corporate social responsibility and good corporate governance naturally go hand-in-hand. The recent spate of corporate scandals in the United States and elsewhere has dramatized, once again, the severity of the agency problems that may arise between managers and shareholders. These scandals remind us that even if we adopt an extremely narr...

Expectation, and Perception of, Better Practice Corporate Governance in the Public Sector from an audit perspective

Toward a Comparative Perspective on Corporate Governance and Labour Management

While stakeholder models of corporate governance support long-term employment, recent reforms have promoted shareholder-oriented corporate governance worldwide. Will reform cause employment to converge on a market system? This paper presents a comparison of the linkages between corporate governance and employment patterns in 22 countries using the QCA method (Qualitative Comparative Analysis). ...

Corporate Governance and Banking Union in a transatlantic perspective

I am particularly glad to introduce the discussions of this panel today. Establishing the banking union constitutes a key step to reinforce the European integration and marks a major milestone in European history. The National Bank of Belgium strongly supports the banking union and its single supervisory mechanism which, if well implemented, will lead to a sound and robust supervisory model and...

Performance of Mergers and Acquisitions under Corporate Governance Perspective

This paper investigates the impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) on corporate performance. This article selects 36 M&A cases of China’s listed real estate companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges from 2008 to 2009. Regarding the corporate value in 2011 as the measure of the long-term performance, we will explore the relationship among check-and-balance Ownership Structure, board s...