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2016

Corporate governance

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Augmenting Corporate Governance Through System Dynamics, Mridula Sahay, Kuldeep Kumar Feb 2016

Augmenting Corporate Governance Through System Dynamics, Mridula Sahay, Kuldeep Kumar

Kuldeep Kumar

The paper aims to augment good corporate governance as a whole with the efficiency and effectiveness of system dynamics via a system dynamics model. The majority of study of corporate governance focus on financial issue, ownership, agency theory etc. rather than analyzing the relation of all aspects associated to corporate governance system as a whole. This study aims to address this gap by focusing on corporate governance in a holistic manner. The value is determined as two-fold: i) It is possible to understand the importance of system dynamics methodology; and ii) It can help the organization to quantify corporate governance …


Who Let The Lawyers Out?: Reconstructing The Role Of The Chief Legal Officer And The Corporate Client In A Globalizing World, Constance Bagley Dec 2015

Who Let The Lawyers Out?: Reconstructing The Role Of The Chief Legal Officer And The Corporate Client In A Globalizing World, Constance Bagley

Constance E. Bagley

In the wake of the collapse of Lincoln Savings and Loan in  1989 and again after the implosion of Enron and WorldCom in 2001, Judge Stanley Sporkin famously asked, “Where were the lawyers?” Section 307 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 imposed new duties on in-house counsel to report up violations of law.  Yet, we still had the LIBOR and foreign-exchange rigging scandals, which had, by 2015, led to multi-billion dollar settlements and fired bank CEOs in England and Germany; rampant insider trading by hedge funds and corporate titans; the subprime mortgage crisis; the option backdating scandals; and massive recalls …