Corporate Governance: Volume 6 Issue 1

The sum of all fears: do directors have valid concerns on the unintended impact of new regulations?

The purpose of the research and paper is to ensure that the views of incumbent directors are not ignored. This is against a background of baying for reform from the media…

The gender composition of boards after an IPO

The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyse the change in the gender composition of the boards of large Australian companies, after listing.

Predicting corporate bankruptcy: where we stand?

The incidence of important bankruptcy cases has led to a growing interest in corporate bankruptcy prediction models since the 1960s. Several past reviews of this literature are…

Corporate Governance after Sarbanes‐Oxley: an Australian perspective

This paper aims to offer an Australian perspective on the recent crisis of confidence in corporate governance and its legislative and regulatory aftermath. It is informative…

Audit committee pre‐Enron efforts to increase the effectiveness of corporate governance

This study of audit committee effectiveness, performed in the period immediately preceding the Enron collapse, seeks to determine whether audit committees were beginning to accept…

The role of the non‐executive director: a personal view

The purpose of the paper is to provide an informed but personal view on the debate surrounding the role of the non‐executive director and the board.

Corporate governance in the USA and Europe: they are closer than you might think

Aims to provide an insightful viewpoint on the growing similarity of corporate governance for companies in the USA and Europe and to provide corporate leaders with a framework for…

Global sports organisations and their governance

To identify the organisations that provide global governance within the sports industry, to discuss their role, and to suggest that they have self‐governance problems due to both…

The increasing cost of corporate governance: decision speed‐bumps for managers

Decision speed, flexibility, and innovation have often been cited as key ingredients to business success on the turbulent twenty‐first century business landscape. Sets out to…

An Introduction to Corporate Environmental Management Striving for Sustainability

Editorial

Special Issue: Business ethics from the Industrial Revolution to the 1960s

List of reviewers