E-governance can play a vital role in socio-economic development of a country by reducing corruption and strengthening democracy. Developing countries like Bangladesh are facing a lot of challenges to establish good governance. E-governance could be a good solution through which government can facilitate an efficient, speedy and transparent process for performing government administrative activ...

Theory and Practice of Corporate Governance explains how the real world of corporate governance works. It offers new definitions of governance and new conceptual models for investigating governance and corporate behaviour, based on both practical experience and academic investigation. In examining the historical development of corporate governance, it integrates issues of company law, regulator...

From a meta-model linking a firm’s corporate governance system to managerial discretion (Charreaux, 2008), this article presents a specific corporate governance model for the high growth entrepreneurial firm. A survey of the empirical literature on the governance of entrepreneurial firms confirms the plausibility of this theoretical framework, especially with respect to the cognitive dimension ...

The current research draws on the agency theory, the IT governance literature, and the executive compensation literature to present a theory of the antecedents of IT control weaknesses as reported under Sections 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act. More specifically, this paper examines the association between two categories of governance mechanisms (IT governance mechanisms and IT executive incentive al...

T he research was aimed to analyze effects of Good Corporate Governance, comprising of Composition of Commissioners & Audit Committee on earnings management an Empirical Study on Indonesia Stock Exchange with Panel Data Approach. The data collection method used was documentation. The samples in this research were in Indonesia registered in Indonesia Stock Exchange. The data analysis ...

In this paper, we investigate whether firm performance is affected by corporate governance and the change of corporate governance after Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX hereafter). We find that firm performance, on average, is negatively associated with the corporate governance after the passage of SOX. However, the firm performance is not significantly associated with the change of corporate governance...

Ethics has been perceived as one of the most important factors in establishing good corporate governance. Information Technology (IT) plays an increasing role in helping modern organizations to achieve their goals, and it has become critical in creating and implementing effective IT governance mechanisms. This study examines the extent to which an ethic or culture of compliance in IT within an ...

Available online 4 April 2008 How is corporate governance measured? What is the relationship between corporate governance and performance? This paper sheds light on these questions while taking into account the endogeneity of the relationships among corporate governance, corporate performance, corporate capital structure, and corporate ownership structure. We make three additional contributions...

Companies in different countries have different corporate governance systems. One of the reasons is that the trade cost dealing in the society and other economic factors are different in different countries. View from this angle, corporate governance systems should have the value that can reduce the costs. However, observing the situations of corporate governance in the real society, we will fi...

The more profound global diversification wealth effect for acquiring firm shareholders in the last decade as well as corporate governance characteristics are found varying with the industry affiliations of the acquirers. The divergent corporate governance across industries appears to explain the differential wealth effect. Manufacturing industries benefit the most through globalization but thei...