Till recently there was no equivalent Arabic term for corporate governance, however, the concept has gained momentum with the Egyptian government efforts to embed the concept in the Egyptian business environment. These efforts have been multi-dimensional including issuing a code of principles of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate corporate governance (CG) practices of banking organizations in Egypt and seeks to understand the extent these can be considered socially constructed phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach – Through a qualitative research design...

Banking organizations have peculiar characteristics that make it difficult for them to adopt and apply traditional corporate governance models. However, little attention has been given to understanding and theorizing banking corporate governance. Deploying a grounded theory methodology this...