Purpose – This paper aims to examine whether the corporate governance rankings published by a market information intermediary are reflected in the values that investors accord to firms. Design/methodology/approach – Panel data from 289 Canadian firms in the four‐year period 2002‐2005...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corporate governance practices or mechanisms and firm value, as measured by accounting and market data. Design/methodology/approach – Partial least square analyses were performed on a sample of 355 observations...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corporate governance practices or mechanisms and firm value, as measured by accounting and market data. Design/methodology/approach – Partial least square analyses were performed on a sample of 355 observations...

Spanish Abstract: El nicho de mercado creado por el Comercio Justo (CJ), basado en principios de solidaridad y de cooperación, ha atraído la participación de las grandes multinacionales. Dichas empresas utilizan como instrumento de inserción al CJ diversos sellos y programas de...

The shareholder democracy phenomenon is becoming increasingly successful all over the world. This article proposes a description of shareholder activism on the Canadian market since its beginning, at least 15 years ago. First of all, the conceptual framework is based on the conflict of interest...