Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the changes of accounting policy choices and the harmonisation of accounting practices for two important financial reporting items within and between three IFRS adopting countries. Furthermore, it aims to address methodological shortcomings in...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to test whether dominant shareholder(s) of a firm enhance performance in Bangladesh and thus examines the arbitrary moves by the regulatory bodies, in the name of promoting 'good corporate governance', to restrict ownership...

This paper investigates empirically the effect of board ownership on firm performance in Bangladesh. By estimating single equation and simultaneous equation models on an unbalanced pooled sample of listed firms, it offers some new insight into the ownership-performance link in Bangladesh....

Purpose – In spite of an abundance of corporate governance literature across the world, the Botswana corporate sector is lacking. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship among the ownership structure, board characteristics and financial performance to determine the role of...

This study examines the interrelationships between foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and country-level corporate governance in a large sample of countries for 2004. Building on the new paradigm shift of FDI attractiveness towards a host country's existing corporate governance environment,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test whether dominant shareholder(s) of a firm enhance performance in Bangladesh and thus examines the arbitrary moves by the regulatory bodies, in the name of promoting “good corporate governance”, to restrict ownership concentration....

This paper investigates the interactions between foreign direct investment (FDI) and country-level individual governance indicators for a sample of 173 countries from 1996 to 2007, and also the effect of legal origin, international financial reporting standards (IFRS) and ownership diffusion on...