Corporate governance of failed firms in the UK

Corporate governance of failed firms in the UK

A series of financial collapses in the UK in the late 1980s resulted in public concem about failures in the governance of companies, leading to the Cadbury Report (1992). However those scandals have not resulted in much attention being paid to the corporate govemance characteristics of failed firms...

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Main Author: Hsu, Hwa-Hsien
Published: University of Leeds 2008
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658.4
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494589
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spelling ndltd-bl.uk-oai-ethos.bl.uk-4945892015-03-20T05:04:56ZCorporate governance of failed firms in the UKHsu, Hwa-Hsien2008A series of financial collapses in the UK in the late 1980s resulted in public concem about failures in the governance of companies, leading to the Cadbury Report (1992). However those scandals have not resulted in much attention being paid to the corporate govemance characteristics of failed firms in the empirical analysis. This thesis uses a dynamic view to extend existing knowledge of corporate govemance mechanisms in the context of corporate failure in the UK. The purpose of this thesis is to empirically examine the effects of static and dynamic governance characteristics on corporate failure, and to investigate the telationships between changes in govemance mechanisms and changes in performance prior to failure.658.4University of Leedshttp://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494589Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
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Hsu, Hwa-Hsien
Corporate governance of failed firms in the UK
description A series of financial collapses in the UK in the late 1980s resulted in public concem about failures in the governance of companies, leading to the Cadbury Report (1992). However those scandals have not resulted in much attention being paid to the corporate govemance characteristics of failed firms in the empirical analysis. This thesis uses a dynamic view to extend existing knowledge of corporate govemance mechanisms in the context of corporate failure in the UK. The purpose of this thesis is to empirically examine the effects of static and dynamic governance characteristics on corporate failure, and to investigate the telationships between changes in govemance mechanisms and changes in performance prior to failure.
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title Corporate governance of failed firms in the UK
title_short Corporate governance of failed firms in the UK
title_full Corporate governance of failed firms in the UK
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