Nomination Committees and Corporate Governance: Lessons from Sweden and the UK

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Nachemson-Ekwall ◽  
Colin Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Dividend Policy in Indonesian Companies: Does Corporate Governance Matter?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S9) ◽  
pp. 825-830
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Dividend Policy ◽  
Resource Dependence ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Resource Dependence Theory ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Finance Industry ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Uk

This study investigates whether corporate governance matters with regards to the dividend policy in Indonesian companies. Previous studies on this subject have mostly been done in developed countries, which have adopted the common law, such as in the US and the UK. This study uses 26 companies operating in the finance industry. Secondary data is used from several sources, such as the annual report and financial statement and related websites. This study uses an independent sample t-test to analyse the data. Corporate governance matters for dividend policy in Indonesian companies. It is evidenced by the fact that there is a significant differ ence in managerial ownership and board size between dividend paid and dividend not paid. Profitability also differs between dividend paid and dividend not paid companies; companies with higher profitability tend to pay dividend. This study provides empirical evidence that corporate governance matters for dividend policy in Indonesian companies. There are two contributions of this study: the result confirms the resource dependence theory and the convergence governance hypothesis.

scholarly journals A comparative analysis of the board evaluation in European entities: Italy vs UK

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 578-587
Author(s):  
Donatella Busso ◽  
Alain Devalle ◽  
Fabio Rizzato
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Size Composition ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Corporate Governance Codes ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
The Uk

Board evaluation is an evaluation of the performance of the board of directors and its committees, as well as their size, composition and operation. The aim of this paper is to investigate how entities do the evaluation of the performance of the board and how they disclose the self-assessment. We analysed the largest forty constituents of both Italy’s FTSE MIB index and the UK’s FTSE 100 index. The results show that although Corporate Governance Codes’ requirements are similar, implementation of these requirements and the related disclosure continue to show significant differences. The UK companies seem to have a stronger “forward-looking” approach compared to Italian companies. Disclosure provided by Italian companies is too often not enough to enable stakeholder understanding of the process and its outcome. This research contributes to the literature by providing results on the evaluation of boards of directors: regulators, practitioners and researchers must deal with this topic in order to strengthen the rules of corporate governance.

scholarly journals From Cadbury to Kay: discourse, intertextuality and the evolution of UK corporate governance

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 1542-1562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Price ◽  
Charles Harvey ◽  
Mairi Maclean ◽  
David Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Governance Reform ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Corporate Governance Code ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Canonical Texts

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to answer two main research questions. First, the authors ask the degree to which the UK corporate governance code has changed in response to both systemic perturbations and the subsequent enquiries established to recommend solutions to perceived shortcomings. Second, the authors ask how the solutions proposed in these landmark governance texts might be explained.Design/methodology/approachThe authors take a critical discourse approach to develop and apply a discourse model of corporate governance reform. The authors draw together data on popular, corporate-political and technocratic discourses on corporate governance in the UK and analyse these data using content analysis and the historical discourse approach.FindingsThe UK corporate governance code has changed little despite periodic crises and the enquiries set up to investigate and make recommendation. Institutional stasis, the authors find, is the product of discourse capture and control by elite corporate actors aided by political allies who inhabit the same elite habitus. Review group members draw intertextually on prior technocratic discourse to create new canonical texts that bear the hallmarks of their predecessors. Light touch regulation by corporate insiders thus remains the UK approach.Originality/valueThis is one of the first applications of critical discourse analysis in the accounting literature and the first to have conducted a discursive analysis of corporate governance reports in the UK. The authors present an original model of discourse transitions to explain how systemic challenges are dissipated.

6. Corporate governance—board structure and shareholder engagement

Company Law ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Hannigan
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Board Structure ◽  
Publicly Traded ◽  
Publicly Traded Companies ◽  
Board Committees ◽  
Shareholder Engagement ◽  
Good Corporate Governance ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Uk ◽  
And Control

This chapter discusses corporate governance in publicly traded companies with widely dispersed shareholdings. Most shareholders are not involved in the management and control of a company's affairs. Thus, a separation usually develops between those who collectively own the company through their combined shareholdings (the shareholders) and those who manage it (the directors). Problems can arise from this separation of ownership and control as distance from the day-to-day running of the business makes it difficult for shareholders to restrain any managerial excesses. The starting point of good corporate governance is internal mechanisms (such as shareholders' rights and board structures). The discussions cover the UK corporate governance code, corporate governance requirement, board committees, and shareholder engagement.

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