Corporate Governance: Volume 7 Issue 2

Corporate governance and the small and medium enterprises sector: theory and implications

Joshua Abor, Charles K.D. Adjasi

The purpose of this paper is to identify the extent to which the corporate governance framework can be applied to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and discuss these issues…

Organizational governance in internal hybrids: a case study of Maekawa Manufacturing Ltd

Vesa Peltokorpi, Emiko Tsuyuki

The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which scholars have proposed organizational forms combining elements of markets and hierarchies. These hybrid forms are based…

Are the corporate social responsibility matters based on good intentions or false pretences? An empirical study of the motivations behind the issuing of CSR reports by UK companies

Samuel O. Idowu, Ioanna Papasolomou

This paper documents the motivations of modern corporations in issuing corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports to their stakeholders. It further demonstrates why these…

Corporate governance efficiency: an indexing approach using the stochastic frontier analysis

Wided Khiari, Adel Karaa, Abdelwahed Omri

The purpose of this paper is to identify efficient governance using a governance efficiency score based on recommendations provided by codes of best practices in order to…

The economic foundations of corporate sustainability

Ulrich Steger, Aileen Ionescu‐Somers, Oliver Salzmann

The purpose of this paper is to fill the void of empirical cross‐industry research in the area of corporate sustainability management and its business case.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) perspectives of leading firms in Ghana

Dan F. Ofori, Robert E. Hinson

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) research has blossomed in this new millennium. This has been due to: the increasing concern expressed by policy makers about corporate social…

Integrating corporate social responsibility and other strategic foci in a distributed production system: a transaction cost perspective on the North Sea offshore petroleum industry

Atle Midttun, Tore Dirdal, Kristian Gautesen, Terje Omland, Søren Wenstøp

The purpose of the paper is to explore the challenges of integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) with other strategic foci into the supply/contractor chain, both…

Board of director performance: a group dynamics perspective

Steven A. Murphy, Michael L. McIntyre

This paper proposes mainly that boards of directors (BOD) are teams that share characteristics with many other kinds of teams. As a consequence, some of the factors that lead to…