This paper contributes to the current corporate governance debate through describing changes that have taken place in Nokia during the past decade. It can be seen that traditional ways of corporate governance and management do not apply for companies operating in a fast changing business and...

Close corporations account for 51 percent of the private sector output and 52 percent of all private employment in the US. Understanding governance issues facing these firms is therefore of considerable importance.(...)

The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to theirperformance. Based on a novel dataset covering Ukrainian joint stock companies in 2002-2006, the paper finds statistically significant negative association between the pastperformance of firms measured by return...

1. Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 Problem Setting 1.3 Research Objectives 2. Theoretical Framework 2.1 Transaction Cost Economics 2.2 Ownership Problems and Corporate Governance 3. Research Methodology 3.1 Research Location 3.2 Data Sources 3.3 Method of Analysis3.4 Classification of Variables...

National borders are still strong barriers for mergers and acquisitions inEurope. We estimate a gravity equation model based on NUTS 2-regionsand find that the restraining impact of national borders decreased byabout a third between 1990 and 2007. However, there has been nosignificant change...