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Although codes of corporate governance have come to be widely used as a mode of regulating corporations, our understanding of how they function is still rather limited. In this paper we describe the design of such code regimes and propose a theoretical framework for studying their effects. On...
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Cross-national regulatory differences in safety, price and intellectual property protection are an inherent feature of the operating environment of the global pharmaceutical firm. Institutional, transaction cost and more recent ‘race to the bottom’ theories assume that regulation represents...
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(Australia) and Enron (USA). The rules applying to each sector cannot fully explain events. Non?prescribed factors influencing … behaviours affecting the interconnections, interdependencies and interactions of the individuals and institutions concerned often …?organisation. Their governance often involves decision-making behaviour that does not operate according to formulaic rules but is …
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This paper examines the extent to which contemporary business-led approaches designed to maximize female human capital are effective in reducing the gendered pay gap in the British labour market. In particular it asks whether the approach outlined by the latest Cabinet Office Review on women's...
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standards are extremely important for assessing the feasibility of establishing effective international rules for banking … development of international 'soft law' principles and rules that shape and constrain state behaviour in international banking … various forms of non-binding soft law rules, to arrangements that share some characteristics of hard law but are not legally …
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This paper analyses the emerging international supervisory regime for banking institutions that operate on a … minimum standards of supervisory practice to regulate the international activities of banking institutions. This paper further …
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The emergence of an international regime of soft law principles and rules to prohibit money laundering by financial … institutions and other intermediaries is an important step in reducing systemic risk in the international financial system. This … combat money laundering by financial institutions. It argues that these multilateral initiatives have facilitated the …
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for corporate governance of financial institutions. This paper addresses some important issues and concepts in the … governance of multinational financial institutions and why international standards are needed to guide financial institutions in …
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This paper investigates the importance of managerial capital to involuntary insolvency and acquisition in UK small and medium-sized companies. Given that small businesses are informationally opaque and lack detailed financial data, the role of non-financial factors such as managerial capital has...
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Empirical evidence shows that the second half of the 20th century has been characterised by a dramatic change in the evolutionary pattern of firms' size structure: the general tendency towards a growing importance of big business which marked the first phase of post-war development came to a...
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