Whistleblowing as a Corporate Governance Mechanism: A Comparative Analysis of Employee-Whistleblower Protection in the United Kingdom and Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uboho Inyang
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Governance Mechanism ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Corporate Governance Mechanism

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Director Tenure in South Africa and Selected International Jurisdictions

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rehana Cassim
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
South African ◽  
The South ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Governance Practices

Director tenure attracts attention worldwide and is increasingly being recognised as a crucial element in assessing an external (independent non-executive) director’s independence. Director tenure has recently come under the spotlight in South Africa. Shareholder activists are expressing disapproval of lengthy tenures of directors serving on boards of listed public companies and exerting pressure on long-serving directors to resign from office. This article examines whether the South African corporate governance principles regulating director tenure are adequate or in need of revision. The article examines further the corporate governance practices in leading jurisdictions such as the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and India that have recently revised their corporate governance practices. It then makes recommendations for enhancing the South African corporate governance approach to director tenure. It also calls on directors to collaborate with shareholders and independent external experts to examine their approach to director tenure and, if circumstances allow, revise the company’s memorandum of incorporation to limit directors’ tenure or provide for a staggered rotation of directors on the board.

Comprehensive Corporate Governance Mechanism and Disclosure Quality: Evidence from the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 2852-2872
Author(s):  
Nooraisah Katmon Et.al
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Forecast Accuracy ◽  
Analyst Forecast ◽  
Governance Mechanism ◽  
Disclosure Quality ◽  
Multiple Directorships ◽  
The United Kingdom

Our study empirically examines the relationship between corporate governance and disclosure quality from the context of the United Kingdom. While studies on corporate governance and disclosure quality are extensive, we argue that only limited studies have utilised analyst forecast accuracy as a proxy for disclosure quality. We concentrateon the analyst forecast accuracy since we value the credibility of financial analysts in forecasting the firm’s earnings. Analyst are the expert users of the firm’s information and they rely on their analysis to predict firm’s earnings as well as to make a recommendation. We derived our sample from the analyst perception on the firms with high quality of disclosure that is the Investor Relation (IR) Magazine Award. Specifically we used 127 match-paired sample (i.e., winners and non-winners) of IR Magazine Award during the year 2005-2008. We measure corporate governance using board characteristics, audit committee characteristics, chairman and audit committee multiple directorships, chairman tenure and institutional ownership. Our findings report that multiple directorship by audit committee consistently increases disclosure quality. This suggest that the multiple directorships held by audit committee in other firms potentially improve their knowledge and experience in improving the quality of disclosure.Moreover, the result also shows a negative association between audit committee financial expertiseand board independent on the extent of quality of disclosure. These findings imply that the appointment of audit committee with financial expertise as well as an independent directors are merely a ticking the box activities, thus it appears in the letter form, but not in spirit. Our results are robust across various estimation, alternative measurement as well as endogeneity test that we have conducted.

Board Effectiveness: An Evaluation based on Corporate Governance Score

Think India ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Hitesh Shukla ◽  
Nailesh Limbasiya
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Governance Mechanism ◽  
Minority Shareholders ◽  
Effective Governance ◽  
Performance Orientation ◽  
Corporate Governance Mechanism ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Ethical Governance

Growth, progress, and prosperity of any country depend highly on the corporate governance mechanism of that country. Good governance of a country helps it to sustainable growth and consistency in progress. The good governance should contribute towards the improvement in transparency, ethics, morality, and disclosure. The principles of good governance stand on honesty, trust, integrity, openness, and performance orientation. Our honorable Prime Minister Narendra bhai Modi had given the three E for good governance during his speech on Independence Day i.e. Effective Governance, Electronic Governance, and Ethical Governance. The fundamental concern of corporate governance mechanism is to ensure the protection of minority shareholders/owners of specific firms. Mechanism of a corporate governance specifies the relations among the shareholders, board of directors, and managers. The present paper is an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of the board by calculating the corporate governance score. The mandatory and non-mandatory guidelines have been considered while assigning points to specific parameters of the corporate governance.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with Wilms tumor in the United Kingdom and Japan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kayo Nakata ◽  
Richard Williams ◽  
Yoshiaki Kinoshita ◽  
Tsugumichi Koshinaga ◽  
Veronica Moroz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Clinical Characteristics ◽  
Wilms Tumor ◽  
The United Kingdom
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