Purpose: Takeovers play a critical role as an external corporate governance mechanism to ensure investor protection. There is a long-standing debate on whether the convergence of corporate governance to global standards can enable emerging economies to ensure investor protection. This paper...

Purpose: The paper investigates how the interplay of women-specific human and social capital factors with ownership structure impacts her chances to get director level appointment in the light of recent amendments to the Indian statute. Design/methodology/approach: The strength of the study...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the strategic issues of risk for independent theatrical film distributors in the Hindi film industry in India. Design/methodology/approach: The study adopted qualitative grounded theory approach to explore contextually relevant strategic issues of risk for...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of the presence of independent board directors on financial performance in India. Design/methodology/approach: This study used panel regression models on large listed Indian firms to investigate the impact on financial performance...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of credit risk components on the performance of credit risk management and the growth in non-performing assets (NPAs) of commercial banks in India. Design/methodology/approach: The data are obtained from primary and secondary sources....

Purpose This paper aims to examine the impact of corporate governance practices on the level of financial disclosures made by the Indian firms. This assumes importance in the context of the role of financial disclosures in addressing the agency problem. Design/methodology/approach Financial...