corporate governance (cg) is an important effort to ensure accountability and responsibility and is a set of principles, which should be incorporated into every part of the organization. this study focused on the state of corporate governance (cg) in two categories of the banking industries: conventional banks and islamic banks. as conventional banks and islamic banks differ a great deal in the...

Corporate governance (CG) is an important effort to ensure accountability and responsibility and is a set of principles, which should be incorporated into every part of the organization. This study focused on the state of Corporate Governance (CG) in two categories of the banking industries: Conventional Banks and Islamic Banks. As Conventional Banks and Islamic Banks differ a great deal in the...

The performance of the firms in corporate sector is heavily dependant upon the corporate governance practices (Nazir et al. 2009) as well as consideration of social responsibility into the general managerial practices of firms, the dimensions of sociocultural environment into business procedures, and compliance with other ethical and regulatory issues. The researchers have focused on the incorp...

This chapter focuses on the characteristics of Turkish corporate governance regime with an emphasis on the dominant characteristics of emerging economies. In Turkey, corporate governance practices were introduced as a precondition of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) rescue package in and around the 2001 financial crisis. Governance practices were enforced by World Bank (WB) and were suppor...

In contrast to the focus of much of the literature on the role of capital markets in hastening convergence in corporate governance practices worldwide, we document the role played by the globalization of product and talent markets in affecting corporate governance of firms in the Indian software industry. We discuss several possible reasons why a particular firm, Infosys, has emerged as the exe...

The goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of corporate governance in China. We examine corporate governance as it has evolved with China’s economic reform and how it has been influenced by laws and regulations, politics, and Chinese culture. The paper focuses predominantly on corporate governance in publicly listed state-owned enterprises. Many problems in the current corporate governanc...

Relying on an alternative theoretical framework (i.e. institutional theory), rather than the dominant agency theory, this paper examines the connections between corporate governance mechanisms and good practices, as informed by an empirical and contextual analysis. On the basis of research methods triangulation, this study presents nine specific antecedents of good corporate governance in weak ...

The fallout of the Enron debacle spurred legislative and regulatory activity aimed at strengthening corporate governance and preventing another corporate implosion. Confronting shattered investor confidence, Congress responded to these corporate governance fiascos by enacting the now infamous Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), meanwhile, called on the self...

The current study comes to discuss the role of Central Bank in developing the corporate governance best practices in Jordanian banks. In addition, the study focuses on investigating the extent to which Jordanian banks are comply with the corporate governance code for banks in Jordan as outlined by Central Bank in 2007. Furthermore, it investigates the extent to which banks comply with the corpo...

Corporate governance systems in the historically market-based economies have evolved in such a way that the system re ̄ects the extant cultural and economic environment. However, in the transitional economies of central and eastern Europe corporate governance practices are being imported from systems used in the historically market-based economies. As a consequence, systems may be introduced int...