Essays about: "examples of corporate governance"

Found 5 essays containing the words examples of corporate governance.

1. 1. The Effect of Board Diversity on Corporate Performance : the Case of Swedish State-Owned Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations

   University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för ekonomi

   Author : Fabian Moser; Valieta Shabanaj; [2019]
   Keywords : State-owned enterprises; hybrid organizations; corporate governance; board of directors; board diversity; corporate performance;

   Abstract : This study examines how board diversity and characteristics of directors affect the financial and non-financial performance of Swedish state-owned enterprises (SOEs). SOEs are characterized by state ownership, goal complexity, governmental funding and control and are therefore typical examples of hybrid organizations that purse both commercial and political logics. READ MORE

3. 2. The framing of Japanese corporate governance in the English-language mass media

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Davor Mijatovic; [2015]
   Keywords : scandal.; corporate governance; discourse; mass media; English-language; The West; Japan; Orientalism; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates and problematizes how the English-language mass media constructs the discourse on Japanese corporate governance. The purpose is to analyse and problematize the discourse on mass media with regard to orientalism. READ MORE

4. 3. The Evolution of Board Functions in Gazelles

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

   Author : Erik Elmborg; Fredrik Linnér; [2013]
   Keywords : Board of Directors; Corporate Governance; Gazelles; Lifecycle; Entrepreneurship;

   Abstract : This paper describes a multiple case study of 14 Gazelles in Sweden and aims to identify what functions the Board of Directors have in these companies and how these functions evolve. Small companies and Gazelles in particular create the majority of all new jobs and therefore play an important role in society. READ MORE

5. 4. A Theory of Corporate Governance for the EC: Assessing the economic and legal peculiarities as starting point for policy making

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Juan Pablo Moreno; [2006]
   Keywords : European Affairs; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This thesis provides a critical overview of the development of corporate governance practices in the EC. It seeks to determine if the Community should follow the US response to corporate governance fallouts or instead promote its own practices, taking into consideration the legal and economic backgrounds of the Member States. READ MORE

6. 5. Results of buyouts in the 1980s and today: A case study of the buyouts of Beatrice (1986) and HCA (2006)

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

   Author : Oskar Bergius; Martin Daniels; [2006]
   Keywords : LBO; buyout; HCA; KKR; club deal;

   Abstract : This thesis analyzes the leveraged buyouts of the 1980s and of today through three changes to corporate governance that Holmström and Kaplan (2001) saw as a result of an LBO: a resolution of the agency problem, the discipline of debt, and active ownership. By conducting case studies of the Beatrice buyout in 1986 and the HCA buyout in 2006, we will provide practical examples of these three issues, and try to find similarities and differences between the two LBO waves with regards to these three issues. READ MORE