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Corporate Governance...Task Corporate Governance Introduction For quite some time, businesses or firms have been practicing merging or simply acquiring other businesses. This is achieved by having the acquiring company maintain its name while the other company’s name is eliminated. Likewise, the two companies have to set rules of engagement that will ensure that they both operate in a manner that serves both of them well without any unfairness. The rules may be touching on both the firms themselves or their customers. This may be because of taking over of one company by another, buying out of one company by another or simply taking over another company. This is done with the main of financial gains or even avoiding making...
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Corporate governance..., control, coordinate the business in terms of managing the assets, processes and systems within the organizational setting (Pounds, 2008, YouTube video). Corporate governance is the legal as well as organizational framework, or certain principles and processes by which corporations are governed. Corporate governance thus relates to powers, accountability and relationships of those people who are involved in the direction and controlling of the corporation (Plessis, Hargovan and Bagaric, 2010, p. 4). As Tricker (2012, p. 4) pointed out, all different types of corporate entities need...
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Corporate Governance...level mangers always focus on the impact of their corporate governance strategy on economic efficiency in addition to a strong emphasis on shareholder values. Since a series of corporate failures in 2001 were attributed to accounting fraud, today organisations give focus on internal check policies while formulating their corporate governance strategy. Likewise, corporate scandals of various forms during the last decade attainted public and political interest, which greatly contributed to strict regulation of corporate governance. However, it seems that corporate...
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Corporate Governance.... What is Corporate Governance? Broadly speaking, Corporate Governance may be defined as a set of laws, rules and principles by which a business is operated and controlled. Some of these rules are set down by law and common business practices and the culture of the land, while others are defined by the owners and those in the higher echelons of management of the enterprise. The rules of corporate governance are based on morality and integrity and fair play. There is an attempt to make all actions bonafide and above suspicion, so that the stakeholders as well as the general public are satisfied as to their genuineness....
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Corporate Governance Models...the total wealth of the firm. Thus, everyone in the firm can get a bigger share of the pie if the pie is large. Therefore this model, does not believe in transferring the rights of voting and cash-flows to the employees. A principle of proportional ownership has being identified by the EC as an important factor that could reform the internal markets. It is ‘one share, one vote’ rule which seeks to strengthen the shareholder rights and thus weakening the protection of the employees. All the measures that are being undertaken to implement this principle create an undesirable wedge between the voting and cash-flow rights.
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Key Principles of Corporate Governance...1. Introduction In the rapidly changing environment of globalization, the dynamics of the business across the globe is undergoing tremendous transformation. The organizations need to implement necessary changes to not only survive but compete with their rival with confidence and effectively meet the challenges of the constantly evolving business environment. Indeed, the highly competitive nature of emerging new models of global business has increased the risks and responsibilities of the organizations. Ticker (2009) asserts that in the contemporary environment, corporate governance needs to reflect the interests of all the main stakeholders and ‘be more participative, less secretive and...
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Corporate governance..., the firms are not only motivated by financial benefits but play wider roles in the development of the society as a whole. Various stakeholders ensure that the business is having positive impact on the wider imperatives of social causes like environment, better HR practices, effective CSR practices etc.
The analysis of stakeholders also helps the firm to proactively support the community welfare and at the same time, meet the changing preferences of the customers, thereby significantly impacting it productive outcome and improving its image and credibility amongst the stakeholders.
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Corporate Governance...across nations
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2.2.4 Beneficiaries of Corporate Governance 28
2.2.5 Corporate Disclosure and Transparency 30
2.2.5 Corporate Governance Models 31
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2.3.1 Shareholder Theory 35
2.3.2 Agency Theory 36
2.3.3 Stakeholder Theory and Corporate Social Responsibility 36
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