Corporate governance: What is it?

The emergence of the phenomenon that has come to be called in modern times, Corporate Governance is described. A selection of corporate governance definitions from the literature is examined. A definition of corporate governance emerging from research data is provided using the language of participa...

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Main Authors: McCabe, Margaret, Nowak, Margaret
Format: Working Paper
Published: Curtin University of Technology 2007
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24875
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description The emergence of the phenomenon that has come to be called in modern times, Corporate Governance is described. A selection of corporate governance definitions from the literature is examined. A definition of corporate governance emerging from research data is provided using the language of participating practitioners in governance in Australia. Content analysis was used as the analytical tool in the construction of the definition. The definition-in-use which was the outcome of the analysis is aligned strongly with stakeholder theory.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-248752017-01-30T12:45:29Z Corporate governance: What is it? McCabe, Margaret Nowak, Margaret The emergence of the phenomenon that has come to be called in modern times, Corporate Governance is described. A selection of corporate governance definitions from the literature is examined. A definition of corporate governance emerging from research data is provided using the language of participating practitioners in governance in Australia. Content analysis was used as the analytical tool in the construction of the definition. The definition-in-use which was the outcome of the analysis is aligned strongly with stakeholder theory. 2007 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24875 Curtin University of Technology fulltext
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Corporate governance: What is it?
title Corporate governance: What is it?
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title_short Corporate governance: What is it?
title_sort corporate governance: what is it?
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24875