The Moral Compass of Companies

It is widely accepted that corruption, be it corporate or political, petty or grand, has become a worldwide problem. This acceptance is attested to by the host of international conventions and efforts designed to stamp it out. However, opinions vary as to who ultimately bears responsibility for that corruption, how that corruption can be reduced, and who will take the lead in its eradication…

REGULATORY GOVERNANCE

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Risk Management and Corporate Governance

This report reviews the corporate governance framework and practices relating to corporate risk management in 27 of the jurisdictions that participate in the OECD Corporate Governance Committee. Against the background of the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance, it describes how various jurisdictions have chosen to implement the Principles relating to risk management. The report analyses th…

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Risk Management and Governance

Today’s society seems to be preoccupied with the notion of risk. The examples of the devastating flood in Pakistan in 2010, the hurricane Katrina in 2005, the so called “Mad Cow Disease” (BSE) in Great Britain, the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, and the major accident of a nuclear power plant in Chernobyl to name just a few, have gained much public attention a…

Corporate Ethics and Corporate Governance

Last Thursday, you went out for lunch with an acquaintance from class, a nice- enough fellow but not a candidate for lifelong friendship. As you were wolfing down your last bite of cheeseburger, you suddenly gulped and flushed: you real- ized that you had forgotten your wallet. You were flat broke. Embarrassed, you entreated your classmate to lend you five dollars, which you would, of course,…

Principles for Corporate Governance in Kenya

In November 1998, a workshop on the Role of Non-Executive Directors was held at the Kenya College of Communications Technology, Mbagathi, Nairobi. Although this seminar was sponsored and supported by leading organisations with specific interest in corporate governance such as the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE), Capital Markets Authority (CMA), Institute of Certified Public Accountants (ICPAK) a…

Understanding Corporate Governance

The system of corporate governance in the United States is a moving target. Although the U.S. is often taken as a key benchmark for shareholder-oriented corporate govern- ance and sometimes also equated with a “model” for good corporate governance, inter- national audiences have often failed to appreciate the continuous evolution and debates in the U.S. itself regarding the reality of cor…

The Role of Government in Corporate Governance

Recent corporate scandals have led to public pressure to reform business practices and increase regulation. Of course, dishonesty, greed, and cover-ups are not new societal concerns. Indeed, much of the existing system of corporate regulation in the United States emerged in response to vagaries of the late 1920s and the subsequent stock market crash. What has changed in recent years, though, …

The Global History of Corporate Governance

Capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century is a variegated collection of economic systems. In America, capitalism is a system where a huge number of independent corporations compete with each other for customers. Monopolies are illegal, though the courts are sometimes an im- perfect safeguard against them. Each corporation has a chief executive officer (CEO) who dictates corporat…

The Heart of Corporate Social Responsibility

The difference between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Responsibility (CR) is the word “social” that makes it clear that CSR is about the relationship between corporations and society. Social also means a desire to support companionship and community and most people would see it including social justice. CSR is an issue because so many businesses put the objectives of a …

State Government Budget Stabilization

This book project dates back to January 1998 when I had just started my doctoral studies at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. The Government Performance Project (GPP), funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, had then just been launched and I worked on the financial management section. Volumes of detailed survey responses from the state governments overwhelmed me, but soon I was beginning …

CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance

This chapter discusses the history of PES in developed and developing countries and illustrates its challenges and opportunities by means of concrete cases. The cases include projects designed to provide different environmental services (clean water, carbon sequestration, biodiversity preservation, etc.) apply- ing different public PES schemes as well as public private partnerships. The experie…

Shaping Internet Governance: Regulatory Challenges

The information society is a key issue in everyday life and a phenomenon encom- passing social, cultural, economic, and legal facettes. Currently, an information society’s legal framework is gradually crystallizing under the newly introduced term of “Internet governance”. During the last few years, intensive discussions about the contents of Internet governance have addressed manifold as…

SOA Governance

Imagine driving along a winding road. On the one side you have sheets of blasted rock that lead up into a mountain range, on the other side you have a steep cliff, with a freefall of several hundred feet, leading into a deep ocean. The faster you drive, the sooner you will reach your destination, but the more risky the drive. For example, you may need to swerve to avoid obstacles or adjust quic…

Risk Management and Corporate Governance

Risk management failures at major corporations have captured the headlines for many years, primarily in the financial sector, but in other sectors as well, and have not always been the result of shortcomings in financial risk-taking. Environmental catastrophes such as Deep Water Horizon or Fukushima come to mind (or, less recently, Bhopal and Seveso), as well as accounting fraud (e.g. Olympus, …

Towards Global Sustainability

The world economy is growing and at the same time is facing serious problems with regard to sustainability. This challenge exists despite the progress we have witnessed, for example, in Europe and the USA in the field of improving the water quality of rivers and hence increasing the fish population. Global population growth, along with economic growth, brings sustainability challenges; CO2 prob…

Tax and Gorporate Governance

Increasingly, the OECD and its member governments have recognized the synergy between macroeconomic and structural policies in achieving fundamental policy goals. Corporate governance is one key element in improving economic efficiency and growth as well as enhancing investor confidence. Corporate governance involves a set of relationships between a company’s management, its board, its shareh…

Risk, Governance and Society

In today’s world of globalized trade, travel and communication, an ever larger number of risk-related events have a trans-boundary impact, crossing national and regional frontiers: large-scale electricity blackouts, chemical accidents and risks related to emerging technologies have all affected various parts of the world only recently. Even these risks seem limited, however, when compared t…

Principles of good governance at different water governance levels

In UNESCO’s scientific programme global climate change is a cen- tral theme. More specifically Water is an important theme, not only because of climate variability and change but also because of mounting pressure on water systems and water resources due to the increasing world population and a growing middle class. A central issue for the water sector is: how do you get out of the ‘water b…

Governing Failure

Over the past two decades, the main organizations involved in financing international development have become preoccupied with the problem of failure. Whether we look back at Joseph Stiglitz’s 1998 seminal lecture, when he was the World Bank’s Chief Economist, on the need to move beyond the “failures of the Washington consensus,” or consider the new Bank President, Kim Jong Kim’s re…

Global Differences in Corporate Governance Systems

Building a sound financial system is a prereqUisIte for economic development in both transition economies and developing countries (Fries and Lane, 1994, p. 21; EBRD, 1998, p. 92). To ensure long-term financial stability, the development of bond and equity markets is one important way of reducing the financial fragility of emerging economies (Taylor, 1999). This insight has led various internat…

Environmental and Forest Governance The Role of Discourses and Expertise

T he governance concept has become a popular framework in polit- ical science during the last decade, especially in the study of pol- icy fields in which political co-ordination problems arise. Governance implies that societal and economic actors have become influential over policy (Peters & Pierre, 1998). Political decisions are being negotiated between these private and state actors in new mo…

European-Corporate-Governance-

After the ethical scandals from Enron to Worldcom at the start of the new century, greater attention than ever before has been paid to corporate governance both inside and outside corporations. A host of regulations, standards, initiatives, programmes, and much more have emerged; from Sarbanes Oxley to the OECD’s updated Principles of Corporate Governance. Some of this activity was undoubte…

THE RELATION BETWEEN AUDITORS' FEES FOR NON-AUDIT SERVICES AND EARNINGS QUALITY

We examine the association between the provision of non-audit services and earnings quality. Because of concerns regarding the effect of non-audit services on financial reporting credibility, the Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued revised auditor independence rules requiring firms to disclose in their annual proxy statement the amount of fees paid to auditors for audit and n…

Creating Value by Informed Governance

This book has been created in an effort to develop a textbook for one of the key courses of a Master of Enterprise Architecture program. It is a first in a series of books needed to further underpin this Master’s program with textbooks combining a sound theoretical base with practical insights, and has been authored in a close collaboration between industry and academia. In authoring this boo…

Corporate Governance

t is clearly accepted that good corporate governance is fundamental to the successfully continuing operating of any company; hence much attention has been paid to the procedures of such governance. Often however what is actually meant by the corporate governance of a firm is merely assumed without being made explicit; often it is assumed to be concerned with how the company conducts its annual …

DELIVERING GOOD GOVERNANCE IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

each local authority operates through a governance framework. it is an interrelated system that brings together an underlying set of legislative requirements, governance principles and management processes. Traditionally, local government has conformed in whole or in part and in many different ways to the principles of good governance and has had a sound base on which to build. There has been a…

Interactive Governance

is chapter sets the stage for the book about small-scale fisheries governance and governability, which draws lessons and reflections from 34 case studies about small-scale fisheries in 34 countries around the world, including north and south, east and west. The diversity, complexity, dynamics, and scale of small-scale fisheries and their governance are described. Characteristics of small-scale …

Information Governance

Once upon a time, records meant paper documents. They lived in file cabinets, and they were managed and maintained by secretaries, librarians and archivists who knew the rules, and applied them diligently. When space for more file cabinets ran out, the records were put in boxes, marked with a destruction date, and shipped out to a box store (a paper records outsource provider). When the destruc…