TY - CHAP
T1 - Introduction
AU - Ghofar, Abdul
AU - Islam, Sardar M.N.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - As good corporate governance is about ethical and proper business practices in all of the firm’s activities to improve investors’ confidence (Yong, 2009), business players are convinced that increasing a firm’s value is the ultimate objective of effective governance. There are many dimensions of effective governance, ranging from its effectiveness in generating the required rates of return for investors to ensuring that managers do not misuse investors’ funds (Kaen, 2005). However, the effectiveness of corporate governance cannot be fully understood without the knowledge of the factors that determine corporate governance structure and ultimately influence the effectiveness of corporate governance.
AB - As good corporate governance is about ethical and proper business practices in all of the firm’s activities to improve investors’ confidence (Yong, 2009), business players are convinced that increasing a firm’s value is the ultimate objective of effective governance. There are many dimensions of effective governance, ranging from its effectiveness in generating the required rates of return for investors to ensuring that managers do not misuse investors’ funds (Kaen, 2005). However, the effectiveness of corporate governance cannot be fully understood without the knowledge of the factors that determine corporate governance structure and ultimately influence the effectiveness of corporate governance.
KW - Business environment
KW - Business strategy
KW - Corporate governance
KW - Earning management
KW - Structural equation modeling
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85064911011
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-10996-1_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-10996-1_1
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85064911011
T3 - Contributions to Management Science
SP - 1
EP - 10
BT - Contributions to Management Science
PB - Springer
ER -