When rowdy shareholders start battering at the door, CEOs should take a leaf from their playbook.
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The G20 will see new guidelines for how companies report the risks of climate change. This will allow investors to compare companies and make more informed decisions.
The CEO gets out as investor power triumphs.
The ASX code was written by, and for, corporate insiders. The council that regulates it is not monitored by a government body, and its members are not elected.
The scandals surrounding South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, were caused by the neglect of corporate governance rules by the board, the executive authority, and the public enterprises minister.
Tech firm CEOs keep control by holding investors at arm’s length. It is damaging corporate governance.
The drama caused by the return of Brain Molefe into South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, signals a failure of accountability and corporate governance within the public sector.
The leadership crisis experienced at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa reveals deep seated corporate governance failures in the management of the country’s state owned enterprises.
He campaigned on the notion that his business experience would equip him to ‘make America great again,’ but running a family company is poor training for the presidency.
The divine right of kings was dismantled after a bloody conflict nearly 400 years ago. The impulse which led to that change should protect us from the reign of the White House emperor.
There’s a common theme in the rise of class actions against companies: CEOs have not been straight with investors, issuing falsely optimistic information or concealing negative information.
Investors in Snapchat’s upcoming initial public offering could find themselves without voting power. Research shows these kind of share structures end badly.
The Volkswagen emissions scandal highlights the benefits of the German corporate governance system, as well as the worst of lobbying around the world.
The last 20 years of failure to tackle boardroom excess should prompt a more radical approach.
Theresa May was supposed to meet with bosses of the Indian conglomerate, but an age-old issue with the family firm has got in the way.
While few would bemoan its end, the club fostered strong ties among the titans of Corporate America and ensured moderate candidates and policies. Its death has led to more extremism.
Hart and Holmström changed the way we think about corporate governance.
A High Street store may give Theresa May the model for bolstering the role of employees in how companies are run.
Proposed laws will put corporate executives in the firing line when the law is broken on their watch.
The Chinese £1bn investment in Sheffield, a former mining town in northern England, comes with valuable lessons about how Africa can maximise economic value in its dealings with China.
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Sessional Lecturer, PhD (Management) Candidate, School of Management, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Social Procurement, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Company Law, University of South Africa
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Senior Lecturer, School of Accountancy, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Finance, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, University of Essex
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Associate Professor - Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance, Macquarie University
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Associate Dean, Research and External Relations; Executive Director, Madden Center for Value Creation; Phil Smith Professor of Entrepreneurship, Florida Atlantic University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Associate Professor and Director of Rhodes Business School, Rhodes University
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Professor of Accounting, Durham University
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Dr Rosemary Sainty is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Professor of Practice, Associate Dean, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor of Business and Sustainable Development, University of Edinburgh
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Professor, UTS Business, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Corporate Governance, City St George's, University of London