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Ali, Searat. "Corporate Governance and Firm Risk in Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/368178.

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This thesis, structured around three interrelated empirical essays, investigates the relationship of corporate governance with firm risks—default, stock liquidity, downside and upside—for a large sample of Australian listed firms (more than 1,000) over the period from 2001 to 2013. Seven reasons were found that make it imperative to empirically investigate such relationships: (i) a series of corporate collapses in early 2000s (such as HIH and OneTel) due to improper governance structures, (ii) a massive economic and social default cost to the stakeholders, (iii) a proliferated attention of reg

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Hovey, Delia. "Idiosyncratic Risk and Corporate Governance: An Empirical Analysis of Australian Listed Firms." Thesis, Griffith University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366089.

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The primary focus of this study is on the relationship between idiosyncratic risk and corporate governance, and the first research question is based on this. A secondary focus of the study is on the relationship between firm performance and corporate governance, and the second research question is based on this. Then, a potential corporate governance-to-idiosyncratic volatility-to-firm performance link is considered. In this study, corporate governance is approached in the context of internal governance controls, based on board structure and composition, and also ownership and ownership stru

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Li, Zhongtian. "Corporate sustainability in Australia: Performance, disclosure and governance." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202715/1/Zhongtian_Li_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis focuses on sustainability disclosure, sustainability performance, and sustainability committee. Analysing a sample of Australian firms, the thesis found that good performers disclose more information and communicate in optimistic, certain, and clear terms; they also present their information in a more readable way; the experience of sustainability disclosure improves the performance, and sustainability committee also contributes to the performance. The findings should of interest to investors, directors, managers, and regulators in Australia.

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Abedi, Shamsabadi Hussein. "Corporate Governance and Dividend Strategy: Lessons from Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365571.

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Corporate governance in Australia has become important according to both academic and managerial perspectives. The governance system is a dynamic force which has been evolving continuously. A series of corporate collapses and the recent global financial crisis have encouraged most countries including Australia to develop their governance systems, and policy makers to develop a code for the role of governance (Aguilera & Cuervo-Cazurra, 2009; Beekes et al., 2011). The common law system for corporate governance in Australia is similar to the Anglo-Saxon so-called “outsider” system of ownership a

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Pham, Hai Yen. "Essays on Corporate Governance and Stock Returns in Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367909.

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This thesis examines the impact of corporate governance-related factors, particularly CEO incentive compensation, discretionary accruals and firm technical efficiency improvement, on stock returns in Australia. The motivation to investigate these impacts was the increasing importance of the equity-based compensation component in CEO remuneration packages, the numerous financial reporting scandals at high profile companies such as Enron, WorldCom and HIH Insurance, and an urgent call from the government on improvement in productivity. Among various corporate governance mechanisms, CEO compensat

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Sharar, Zain. "A comparative analysis of the corporate governance legislative frameworks in Australia and Jordan measured against the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance 2004 as an international benchmark." ePublications@bond, 2006. http://epublications.bond.edu.au/theses/sharar.

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In recent years, countries across the globe have come to realise the importance of an official corporate governance regime, which provides a platform for market integrity and efficiency, as well as facilitating economic growth. Formulating effective corporate governance measures is a complex task for legislators. The purpose of this paper is to provide an in depth analysis and comparison of the corporate governance legislative frameworks in Australia and Jordan. In 2004, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in conjunction with national and international governmenta

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McCabe, Margaret. "Directors' perceptions of best practice in corporate governance in Australia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2479.

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In this study directors of public listed companies around Australia gave their perceptions of best practice in corporate governance. A qualitative methodology within the constructivist paradigm was used along with a questionnaire thus making it a linked study. Mechanisms to assist in demonstrating rigour in the research process were developed and implemented as part of the research. The findings presented a description of best practice in corporate governance and a definition of corporate governance. Emerging from the findings was a model of best practice that was consistent with complex adapt

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McCabe, Margaret. "Directors' perceptions of best practice in corporate governance in Australia." Curtin University of Technology, Graduate School of Business, 2002. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=16227.

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In this study directors of public listed companies around Australia gave their perceptions of best practice in corporate governance. A qualitative methodology within the constructivist paradigm was used along with a questionnaire thus making it a linked study. Mechanisms to assist in demonstrating rigour in the research process were developed and implemented as part of the research. The findings presented a description of best practice in corporate governance and a definition of corporate governance. Emerging from the findings was a model of best practice that was consistent with complex adapt

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Xu, Suichen. "The impact of corporate governance on private placements in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/69840/1/Suichen_Xu_Thesis.pdf.

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In private placement transactions, issuing firms sell a block of securities to just a small group of investors at a discounted price. Non-participating shareholders suffer from ownership dilution and lose the opportunity to receive the discount. This thesis provides the first evidence on whether and how corporate governance can protect non-participating shareholders' interests. Results from an examination of 329 private placements issued by the top 250 Australian firms between 2002 and 2009 demonstrate that firms with higher governance quality are more likely to issue a share purchase plan (SP

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Lipman, Trevor. "The role of the independent non-executive director in Australia." Doctoral thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/28880.

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Thesis (DBA)--Macquarie University, Graduate School of Management, 2008.<br>Bibliography: p. 275-289.<br>Company directors have been in existence for more than four hundred years. In the past, they were considered to be a necessary part of corporate existence, and were usually appointed to a board by the CEO or chairman. However, they were usually mates from the 'boys club' and gained their position from whom they knew, and not from what they were capable of contributing. The appointment of independent directors became more normal, as shareholders looked for a way to wrest control back from ma

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Cullen, Lisa M. "Determinants of corporate governance disclosures by Australian listed companies subsequent to the introduction of ASX listing rule 4.10.3." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2002. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/751.

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This study has considered the incentives motivating listed mining and industrial companies to provide governance related disclosures in their annual reports. An examination is made of the impact of listing rule 4.10.3 that was applicable from 30 June 1996. Accordingly the years 1995, 1996 and 1997 are examined. A sample of 100 mining companies and 100 industrial companies was drawn primarily from the Connect 4 database of companies. Adopting political cost theory the study hypothesised that governance disclosures were positively related to the proportion of non-executive directors, gearing, ow

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Ziolkowski, Richard, and n/a. "A re-examination of corporate governance: concepts, models, theories and future directions." University of Canberra. Law, 2005. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060411.150123.

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This thesis represents a scholarly journey towards an understanding of corporate governance. Unlike the vast majority of writings on governance, this work attempts to take a step back, and to consider why and how we should study corporate governance. These critical questions have been largely ignored during the frenzy of governance research in the past few decades. The thesis argues that corporate governance theory and practice reflects a Tower of Academic Babel¹ reality as writers from diverse backgrounds use different approaches, invent terminology and proclaim a new 'theory'. The thesis ana

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Atif, Muhammad. "Three Studies on Corporate Governance and Cash Holdings." Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/382035.

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This thesis is structured around three interrelated empirical studies investigating the relationship between corporate governance and cash holdings in Australia and the US. Several reasons make this relationship both important and worth investigating empirically: (i) large cash holdings around the world and particularly in Australia and the US, (ii) the increased attention of regulators towards strengthening shareholder say on pay, (iii) the proliferated attention of regulators around the world calling for greater gender diversity on boards, (iv) the emergence of non-financial firm performance

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Spaseska, Aleksandra. "Australian investor relations practices." UWA Business School, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0155.

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[Truncated abstract] Investor relations (IR) management encompasses a broad range of activities including voluntary disclosure, attracting analyst coverage, targeting investors, and providing feedback to corporate managers (Byrd, Goulet, Johnson and Johnson 1993; Brennan and Tamarowski 2000; Bushee and Miller 2005). In recent years, a number of high profile corporate collapses and concerns about selective disclosure have contributed to an increased awareness of the importance of effective IR practices in promoting investor confidence. To this end, Australian market regulators and industry bodi

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Lin, Michelle Ching-Yi. "Initial public offerings and board governance : an Australian study." University of Western Australia. School of Economics and Commerce, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0027.

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In March 2003, the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) released new corporate governance guidelines, which included debatable “best practice” recommendations such as the adoption of an independent board and separation of the roles of chairperson and CEO. Given the premise that strong corporate governance enhances shareholder value and, by extension, increases initial public offering (IPO) issuers’ appeal to investors, this thesis assesses the level of conformity by a sample of Australian firms, which made an IPO between 1994 and 1999, with the best practice recommendations. We also examine the rel

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Nadarajah, Prashanthi Banking &amp Finance Australian School of Business UNSW. "Top management turnover: an empirical examination of changes in portfolio holdings and investment performance." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Banking and Finance, 2004. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/19356.

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This thesis presents two research projects examining the relationship between top management turnover (i.e. investment directors of funds management firms) and the performance of actively managed Australian institutional funds. Khorana (1996, 2001) studies this relationship from purely a performance perspective using U.S. managed funds. This thesis extends the work of Khorana (1996, 2001) by providing investors and other stakeholders with empirical evidence on performance, sources of performance and the dynamics of portfolios in the pre-and-post replacement periods. This issue is significan

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Phillips, William J. "A comparison of perceived social responsibility standards with perceived social responsibility performance in the Australian banking industry : A stakeholder analysis." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2002. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/711.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate extent to which Australian banking corporations embrace social responsibility. It endeavours to establish the meaning of social responsibility generally and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in particular. In view of the multiple definitions of the concept of ‘social responsibility’ offered by various authors Such.1 Boatright (1993), Freeman (1994), Walters (1977), and Wheeler (1998), the views of power dependent Australian bank stakeholders were solicited to form an operational definition for the study. This created a collective conception of so

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Ramage, Paul. "Factors impacting on the adoption and operation of corporate governance reform in Australian state government departments." Thesis, full-text, 2009. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/1992/.

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Corporate governance reforms are increasingly common in public sector organisations. Despite the scope of recent and ongoing public sector change, the processes used to adopt and operate public sector corporate governance reform are not clearly documented. In some cases there is evidence of reform failure. This study sought to identify and describe the variables associated with corporate governance change in Australian state government departments, particularly the factors that impact on the adoption and operation of reform. Concepts associated with scientific management (rational/technocrati

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Tucker, Tony Ralph, and n/a. "Corporate Governance in the Australian Public Service. An examination of success andfailure, with particular reference to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship." University of Canberra. n/a, 2008. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20081209.091200.

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The introduction of New Public Management reforms to the Australian Public Service in the 1980s and 1990s marked a substantial shift away from the traditional process-based public sector model to a market-driven one. These reforms accelerated with the election of the Howard government in 1996, which moved the public sector to become more like the private sector, but failed to address directly the changes needed in accountability and control of the APS. This study explores the evolution of corporate governance as a means of filling that gap in the APS. The ultimate responsibility for ensuring c

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Bambach, Matthew. "Maximising Board governance effectiveness in small and medium-sized Australian independent schools." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2020. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2310.

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My experience of working with boards of independent schools has led me to conclude that boards often struggle to know how they might make their governance more effective. Very little has been written and few empirical studies have investigated governance of independent school boards in Australia, despite the considerable responsibility and power entrusted to them. This study asks how well such boards are governing and what they could do to engender fully effective governance. Currently, there are no standards or instruments for assessing the effectiveness of board governance. This study identi

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Stapledon, G. P. "Controlling the controllers of public companies : a study of the role of shareholders in corporate governance in the United Kingdom and Australia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260137.

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Gao, Boshi. "Does board gender diversity influence the adoption of conservative accounting policies?" Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/209801/1/Boshi_Gao_Thesis.pdf.

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The thesis examines whether corporate board gender diversity affects corporate accounting conservatism. This study finds that board gender diversity is positively associated with corporate accounting conservatism and that the voluntary board gender requirements in Australia from 2010 to 2014 (‘post’ recommendation period) did not significantly influence the strength of the association between board gender diversity and corporate accounting conservatism. These findings serve as a good reference point for policy makers and further studies investigating gender quota recommendations in the future.

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Gillett, Rodney A. "Steering in the same direction? : an examination of the mission and structure of the governance of providers of pathway programs." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2011. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/543.

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The purpose of the study was to examine the mission and structure of governance of three providers of pre-university pathway programs based in Australia and operating on a global basis. The aim of the research was to investigate changes, if any, to the purpose and form of governance in this sector for which virtually no research has been undertaken. The literature review of governance in the higher education sector on a global scale in relation to universities revealed an increasing trend toward a corporate style of management. The literature also revealed that the distributors of pathway prog

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Al-Zoubi, Abdallah Bader Mahmoud. "Director independence or decision bias? An investigation of alternative sources of agency costs in board decision making." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/89752/1/Abdallah_Al-Zoubi_Thesis.pdf.

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Research into boards traditionally focuses on independent monitoring of management, with studies focused on the effect of board independence on firm performance. This thesis aims to broaden the research tradition by consolidating prior research and investigating how agents may circumvent independent monitoring. Meta-analysis of previous board independence-firm performance studies indicated no systematic relationship between board independence and firm performance. Next, a series of experiments demonstrated that the presentation of recommendations to directors may bias decision making irrespect

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Jarron, Christina. "More nearly social institutions legal regulation and the sociology of corporations /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/81460.

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"October 2008"<br>Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy, Dept. of Sociology 2009.<br>Bibliography: leaves 273-293.<br>Introduction -- Patterns of corporate activity as patterns of corporate dominance: legal, organisational, and economic features of corporations -- Representations of corporate dominance in insidious injuries -- The legal basis of corporate dominance: History of the corporation -- Legal individualism and corporate personhood -- Theories of the corporation -- The legal regulation of corporations - corporate liability laws -- Conclu

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Liu, Wenxuan. "Ownership, corporate governance and timeliness of price discovery : Australian evidence." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/61068/1/Wenxuan_Liu_Thesis.pdf.

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This study investigates whether and how a firm’s ownership and corporate governance affect its timeliness of price discovery, which is referred to as the speed of incorporation of value-relevant information into the stock price. Using a panel data of 1,138 Australian firm-year observations from 2001 to 2008, we predict and find a non-linear relationship between ownership concentration and the timeliness of price discovery. We test the identity of the largest shareholder and find that only firms with family as the largest shareholder exhibit faster price discovery. There is no evidence that sug

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Rankin, Michaela, and Michaela Rankin@buseco monash edu au. "Determinants of Executive Remuneration: Australian Evidence." RMIT University. Accounting and Law, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080812.140803.

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Corporate governance, and the role of executive pay in particular, has received increased attention from the media, government, and the business arena in recent years. The study reported in this thesis adds to our understanding of both the components and determinants of Australian remuneration packages for the top management team. It does so in four main ways: 1. The study examines the determinants of compensation of a range of senior executives within the organisation, in addition to the CEO. No Australian research, to date, explores the structure and determinants of remuneration beyond

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Plastow, Kevin Patrick. "An analysis of the nature and effectiveness of corporate governance in smaller listed Australian companies." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/44036/1/Kevin_Plastow_Thesis.pdf.

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The objective of this thesis is to investigate the corporate governance attributes of smaller listed Australian firms. This study is motivated by evidence that these firms are associated with more regulatory concerns, the introduction of ASX Corporate Governance Recommendations in 2004, and a paucity of research to guide regulators and stakeholders of smaller firms. While there is an extensive body of literature examining the effectiveness of corporate governance, the literature principally focuses on larger companies, resulting in a deficiency in the understanding of the nature and effective

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Lin, Michelle Ching-Yi. "Initial public offerings and board governance : an Australian study /." Connect to this title, 2005. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0027.

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Hill, Lesley Ellen. "Executive Incentives, Corporate Governance and Tax Haven Utilisation: Evidence from Australian Financial Institutions." Thesis, Curtin University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79399.

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This study extends prior research investigating the relation between firms’ use of tax haven jurisdictions and performance-based remuneration incentives of CEOs. Additionally, we assess the moderating role of corporate governance attributes on the relation between firms’ use of tax havens and the remuneration characteristics of CEOs in those firms. Based on a dataset of 1054 firm-year observations comprising publicly-listed Australian financial institutions over the 2008–2018 period, we find a positive and significant relation between firms’ use of tax havens and CEOs remuneration attributes.

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Ramage, Paul. "Factors impacting on the adoption and operation of corporate governance reform in Australian state government departments." full-text, 2009. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/1992/1/Paul_Ramage_PhD_3521847_2009.pdf.

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Corporate governance reforms are increasingly common in public sector organisations. Despite the scope of recent and ongoing public sector change, the processes used to adopt and operate public sector corporate governance reform are not clearly documented. In some cases there is evidence of reform failure. This study sought to identify and describe the variables associated with corporate governance change in Australian state government departments, particularly the factors that impact on the adoption and operation of reform. Concepts associated with scientific management (rational/technocratic

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Christopher, Joseph E. R. "Corporate governance and the role of internal audit : the case of Australian public universities." Thesis, Curtin University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/220.

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Over the last two decades a series of spectacular failures in corporate governance has raised concern about good governance of private and public sector organisations. These concerns inevitably extend to the Australian public university sector, a multi billion revenue earner for the Australian economy. This industry sector has undergone significant changes in strategic and operational direction over the past two decades, affected by a series of governmental reforms and other environmental influencing forces which have inevitably raised questions about governance.These questions have been raise

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Chua, Pih Fong. "Corporate Governance Determinants of Environmental and Climate Change Disclosures and Performance: An Australian Empirical Study." Thesis, Curtin University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68272.

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This study examines the association between corporate governance and environmental and climate-change (ECC) disclosures and performance of top ASX listed firms, during the operative periods of carbon pricing and prescriptive requirements on firms to disclose ECC information in corporate reports: 2011 to 2015. Quantitative evidence show board independence, environmental assurance, and boards with community affiliation are substantive measures while environmental committees and boards with environmental and social affiliations tend to be symbolic environmental governance measures.

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Pi, Lili. "The determinants of chief executive officer turnover in Chinese listed companies : An aspiration level and power perspective." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2009. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/57735.

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This study focuses on the determinants of CEO turnover of listed companies in China, the largest transitional and developing economy in the world, where governance institutions and structures are evolving. Drawing on the strategic change, aspiration, and CEO power literature, a CEO turnover model and a set of hypotheses have been contructed.<br>Doctor of Philosophy

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Matthew, Anne F. "The conceptual legitimacy of support for risk-taking, entrepreneurship and innovation in Australian corporate law: A theoretical examination." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/132567/1/Anne_Matthew_Thesis.pdf.

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Innovation, entrepreneurship and risk-taking play a pivotal role in economic growth and should be encouraged in a modern economy. This project considers how to best position the legal environment created by corporate law to encourage these phenomena, particularly among start-up ventures. The research explores this question by examining select elements of Australian corporate law through the lens of innovation economics, and breaks new ground in doing so. Using principles of neo-Schumpeterian economics, the research examines the law from industry, financial and public perspectives, and formulat

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Smith, Kevin John. "Do board contacts matter? : an analysis of the relationship between boards of directors’ ties and the performance of Australia’s largest companies." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/32188/1/Kevin_Smith_Thesis.pdf.

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Boards of directors are thought to provide access to a wealth of knowledge and resources for the companies they serve, and are considered important to corporate governance. Under the Resource Based View (RBV) of the firm (Wernerfelt, 1984) boards are viewed as a strategic resource available to firms. As a consequence there has been a significant research effort aimed at establishing a link between board attributes and company performance. In this thesis I explore and extend the study of interlocking directorships (Mizruchi, 1996; Scott 1991a) by examining the links between directors’ opportu

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Taylor, Grantley J. "Determinants of financial instrument disclosure patterns of Australian listed resource firms pre- and post-IFRS adoption." Thesis, Curtin University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/516.

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This thesis investigates the pattern of Financial Instrument Disclosures (FIDs) within the annual reports of Australian listed extractive resource companies (mining and petroleum) over a four year longitudinal period encompassing the 2003 to 2006 financial years. This is an important period to investigate FID patterns as it encompasses those years leading up to and immediately following formal adoption of the Australian equivalents to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).Using an index (FIDI) comprising 120 items of financial instrument information to measure the extent of FI

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Kinuthia, Wanyee. "“Accumulation by Dispossession” by the Global Extractive Industry: The Case of Canada." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30170.

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This thesis draws on David Harvey’s concept of “accumulation by dispossession” and an international political economy (IPE) approach centred on the institutional arrangements and power structures that privilege certain actors and values, in order to critique current capitalist practices of primitive accumulation by the global corporate extractive industry. The thesis examines how accumulation by dispossession by the global extractive industry is facilitated by the “free entry” or “free mining” principle. It does so by focusing on Canada as a leader in the global extractive industry and the spr

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Jia, Xinting. "Balancing convergence and divergence : governance in the resources sector in China and Australia." Thesis, 2007. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/29778/.

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Reynolds, Steven T. "Effective Corporate Governance in Not-for-profit Organisations." Thesis, 2014. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/25080/.

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This thesis explores corporate governance effectiveness in not-for-profit organisations by identifying and developing the types of performance indicators used in the not-forprofit sector. Only by agreement, between all affected parties, on the criteria is one able to assess corporate governance effectiveness. This thesis contributes not only analytically but also by the provision of several empirical datasets: they are contributions from interviews with expert practitioners, action research data available from an individual board that developed its own performance indicators and a review

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Trebeck, Katherine. "Democratisation through corporate social responsibility? : the case of miners and indigenous Australians." Phd thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151703.

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Fukofuka, Peni. "The practice of accountability, accounting and everyday resistance." Phd thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/212011.

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My aim in this thesis is to investigate the practice of accountability and accounting in Australian Indigenous corporations. Furthermore, I investigate resistance to control, an issue that is inseparable from accountability and accounting practices. My focus on practice is primarily motivated by one of the most important arguments in some of the essays compiled by Ahrens et al. (2009) in honor of Anthony Hopwood. In a nutshell, the argument is that there is much to unearth about accountability and accounting if efforts are given to reinvigorate current conceptualization of the social context w

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Rashid, Kashif. "A comparison of corporate governance and firm performance in developing (Malaysia) and developed (Australia) financial markets." Thesis, 2008. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/1457/.

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Issues and Significance: It is widely believed that good corporate governance is an important factor in improving the value of a firm in both developing and developed financial markets. However, the relationship between corporate governance and the value of a firm (the CGVF relationship) differs in developing and developed financial markets due to disparate corporate governance structures in these markets resulting from the dissimilar social, economic and regulatory conditions in these countries. There is a need to understand the differences which affect the value of a firm for academic invest

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Rashid, Kashif. "A comparison of corporate governance and firm performance in developing (Malaysia) and developed (Australia) financial markets." 2008. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/1457/1/rashid.pdf.

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Issues and Significance: It is widely believed that good corporate governance is an important factor in improving the value of a firm in both developing and developed financial markets. However, the relationship between corporate governance and the value of a firm (the CGVF relationship) differs in developing and developed financial markets due to disparate corporate governance structures in these markets resulting from the dissimilar social, economic and regulatory conditions in these countries. There is a need to understand the differences which affect the value of a firm for academic invest

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Gonzalez, Victoria Elizabeth. "The Implementation of Basel III in an Australian Bank: Some Corporate Governance Implications." Thesis, 2016. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/32220/.

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The uncertainty in financial markets due to the global financial crisis highlights the importance of proper prudential and regulatory practices in commercial banks, and the economic and social costs that can be incurred if risk is not adequately identified and managed. To manage risk, the global community is adopting the third generation of liquidity and capital requirements developed by the Basel Committee on Banking (the Basel III standards). There is no published study focusing on the implementation of Basel III in the Australian banking system. To fill this gap, this study develops a

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Li, Yongqiang. "Governance, Regulation and Performance of Non-listed Small Corporations in Australia: a Structural Equation Modelling Approach." Thesis, 2014. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/25854/.

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Small corporations are the backbone of the Australian economy. Various studies have explored corporate governance as it applies to larger organisations. Few studies, however, have examined how corporate governance relates to small corporations. The “one size fits all model” adopted by most of the corporations’ law frameworks and the “comply or explain” mentality places a significant amount of unnecessary and disproportionate compliance burden on small businesses. Worse still, non-listed small corporations are losers of the “corporate governance reform competition”, given their resource c

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Kleynhans, Stefan Anton. "The corporate opportunity rule: a comparative study." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22604.

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Company directors, being human, may be tempted to promote their own interests rather than those of the companies on whose boards they serve. Directors are subject to a number of legal duties. A director has a fiduciary duty to act in good faith and in the best interests of the company. A number of other duties flow from this duty such as the duty to avoid a conflict of interests. The duty of a director not to appropriate a corporate opportunity belonging to the company of which he or she is a director, also flows from the duty to avoid a conflict of interests. The common-law duties of direct

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De, Silva Lokuwaduge Chitra. "Governance and performance: an empirical study of Australian universities." Thesis, 2011. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/19377/.

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Governance structures have become one of the most debated aspects of the public sector and during the last decade good corporate governance practices have come to be regarded as important in enhancing the performance of all government- funded institutions. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between governance structures, practices and the performance of the university sector in Australia. During the period investigated in this study, the universities were undergoing significant governance reforms.

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Adhariani, Desi. "Financial Management, Corporate Governance and Risk Management: A Feminist Perspective Using an Optimisation Approach." Thesis, 2015. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/34682/.

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In recent years, the issue of effective corporate governance has attracted much attention, especially to promote an ethical business environment to ensure corporate accountability and integrity. In the academic sphere, the mainstream research on corporate governance and ethics has been performed using various ethics theories based on the premise of conflict of interest. This thesis uses a feminist perspective to analyse the corporate governance practices at BHP Billiton using the lens of the feminist ethics of care, as well as projecting the financial condition of the company using the same pr

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Smith, June. "Professionalism and ethics in financial planning." Thesis, 2009. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15535/.

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Financial planning advice is becoming increasingly relevant to the economic objectives of Australians. However, the evidence suggests there are numerous ethical risks related to the provision of that advice and other factors that may be influencing the ethical decision making of financial planners and compliance officers in their respective roles. The purpose of this study was to enhance understanding of the ethical decision making of these financial planning participants within this context. This study is therefore a significant one in what is a relatively under-researched area of interest.

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