Corporate Governance: Volume 4 Issue 2

Global corporate governance: debates and challenges

Malla Praveen Bhasa

Modern day business is beset with changing operating paradigms. Economies with efficient economic policies and stable political systems are a big draw among the investors…

Proactive versus reactive business ethics performance: a conceptual framework of profile analysis and case illustrations

Goran Svensson, Greg Wood

The topic of this paper focuses on proactive versus reactive business ethics performance in the marketplace. The internal perception of a corporation and the external perception…

Control of the treasury function

Christine Helliar, Theresa Dunne

High profile disasters such as those experienced at Barings in 1995 and more recently at Enron and AIB Group, have resulted in increasing attention being focused on the internal…

The corporate governance of professional football clubs

Sean Hamil, Matthew Holt, Jonathan Michie, Christine Oughton, Lee Shailer

Professional football clubs in England face serious financial and operational difficulties and challenges. Our survey reveals that less than a quarter of football clubs responding…

Corporate governance and the role of non‐executive directors in large UK companies: an empirical study

Christopher Pass

In the 1990s various committees (Cadbury, Greenbury, Hempel) reported on governance issues, including the role played by non‐executive directors in promoting “best practice”…

The ethical dilemma of merging the roles of CEO and chairman of the board

Sebastian A. Sora, Samuel M. Natale

The intent of this article is to explore the resultant conundrum that arises when the role of the chief executive officer (CEO) and the role of the chairman of the corporate board…

Wheeling and dealing

P. Scott Scherrer

This article addresses strategies used by creditors to take control of businesses in bankruptcy. The creditors are able to convert their debt to equity ownership by acquiring a…