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Book Corporate Governance  Bank Specific Characteristics  Banking Industry Characteristics  and Intellectual Capital  IC  Performance of Banks in Arab Gulf Cooperation Council  GCC  Countries

Download or read book Corporate Governance Bank Specific Characteristics Banking Industry Characteristics and Intellectual Capital IC Performance of Banks in Arab Gulf Cooperation Council GCC Countries written by Mahfoudh Abdul Karem Al-Musalli and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Corporate Leadership and Its Role in Shaping Organizational Culture and Performance

Download or read book Corporate Leadership and Its Role in Shaping Organizational Culture and Performance written by Bejaoui, Azza and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing globalization, cutthroat competition, recurrent financial crises, and new social media technology provide unimaginable strain on companies to rethink their human resources practices. Such ever-growing business environments particularly call upon companies to develop sustainable leadership practices and create a well-established organizational climate. By promoting an organizational value system, the leader can influence the work behavior and attitudes of the employees and results. Corporate Leadership and Its Role in Shaping Organizational Culture and Performance is an essential reference source that investigates the influence of corporate leadership on the organizational culture and performance of a company and ways in which this understanding can improve firm effectiveness, nurture entrepreneurial behavior and practices, and establish innovative processes. Featuring research on topics such as intellectual capital, job satisfaction, and gender inequality, this book is ideally designed for managers, executives, business leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, academicians, and students.

Book Corporate Insolvency Law and Bankruptcy Reforms in the Global Economy

Download or read book Corporate Insolvency Law and Bankruptcy Reforms in the Global Economy written by Kashyap, Amit and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the increasing interdependence of global economies, international relations are becoming a more complex system. Through this, the growth of any economy is dependent upon the ease of business transactions; however, in recent times, there has been a growing impact of corporate insolvency law. Corporate Insolvency Law and Bankruptcy Reforms in the Global Economy is an essential reference source that discusses the importance of insolvency laws in the financial architecture of emerging economies, as well as its fundamental issues. Featuring research on topics such as business restructuring, debt recovery, and governance regulations, this book is ideally designed for law students, policymakers, economists, lawyers, and business researchers seeking coverage on the jurisprudence and policy of corporate insolvency law in a globalized context.

Book Accounting and Finance Innovations

Download or read book Accounting and Finance Innovations written by Nizar Alsharari and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is currently experiencing the advent of new information technologies with dynamic changes, which can be considered as one of the greatest business threats today. Accordingly, international business and academia have claimed to be working towards developing innovations in accounting and finance that are useful for all stakeholders. The recent accounting and finance scholarship has moved forward toward new innovations that advance professional practice. This book introduces and discusses new innovations in accounting and finance, including management accounting, blockchain, E-business models, data analytics, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, bitcoin, digital assets, and associated risks. It also sheds light on how and why accounting and finance innovations have changed over time. This book will help practitioners and academics develop and introduce new accounting and finance tools and concepts. It is also a useful resource for those working in the accounting and finance fields.

Book Examining the Vital Financial Role of SMEs in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Download or read book Examining the Vital Financial Role of SMEs in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals written by Taleb, Dalila and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s society, businesses are being pressured to play a more active role in addressing global environmental, social, and economic issues. Therefore, a considerable shift in the functional components of enterprises is required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. SMEs play a vital role in countries' socio-economic structures, and the importance of SMEs is increasingly recognized as a factor of economic stability and social cohesion. In order to ensure SMEs are appropriately utilized to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, further study is required. Examining the Vital Financial Role of SMEs in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals highlights the challenges and opportunities of using the concepts of economic sustainability to achieve sustainability goals as well as the role SMEs play in developing sustainable practices. The book also discusses how finance sustainability can be used to improve the stability of policies. Covering topics such as blockchain, corporate social responsibility, and performance management practices, this reference work is ideal for business owners, policymakers, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Book Gender Issues in Business and Economics

Download or read book Gender Issues in Business and Economics written by Paola Paoloni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents current research on gender studies in the specific context of the knowledge economy. Featuring contributions from the 2017 Annual Ipazia, the Scientific Observatory for Gender Studies Workshop on Gender, this book investigates gender issues and female entrepreneurship from social, economic, corporate, organizational, and management perspectives, with particular emphasis on advancing the understanding of gender in business and economic research. The post-industrial knowledge economy is characterized by an emphasis on human capital as the real engine of sustainable growth and development. With women comprising an increasing share of the global workforce, gender studies play a central role in exploring and understanding the attitudes and skills of women in business and their impact on economic and social development. Gender inequality in public and private contexts is decreasing due to an increase of women in leadership roles in business, the expansion and diversity of females in education, and a larger presence of women in policymaking roles. Ipazia, the Scientific Observatory for Gender Studies, aims to define an updated framework of research, service and projects on women and gender relations to highlight the evolution of gender in business and economics. This volume features contributions on female-owned family business, gender diversity in organizations, gender capital, and immigration from the 2017 Ipazia workshop.

Book Corporate Governance in the Banking Sector

Download or read book Corporate Governance in the Banking Sector written by Bruno Buchetti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an overview of the most important theories on Corporate Governance, investigating the myth and the reality of it. It argues that within the banking sector exist two new agency costs (i.e., bank depositors and shareholders vs. directors and bank depositors vs. shareholders and directors). These agency problems are difficult to reduce for two reasons. First, banks are complex and opaque. Second, government implicit guarantees and the deposit insurance systems reduce the monitoring of depositors. This book also takes a deep dive into research on CG in the banking sector via a unique and innovative literature review covering the time period between 2000-2020. It finds that some specific CG characteristics affect banks: risk appetite, performance, accounting quality, compensation and corporate social responsibility disclosure. Furthermore, this publication contends that institutional investors are changing CG for the better, describing how major financial markets factors such as rating agencies and sell-side financial analysts make CG visible. Additionally, it investigates how managerial biases and irrational investors can affect CG negatively, leading to company distress. All-in-all, this book makes a threefold contribution: for regulators, it offers suggestions on how to improve banks’ supervision; for researchers, it suggests new research topics; and for practitioners, it connects CG theory with real cases of CG failure.

Book ECIIC 2019 10th European Conference on Intangibles and Intellectual Capital

Download or read book ECIIC 2019 10th European Conference on Intangibles and Intellectual Capital written by Prof. Massimo Sargiacomo and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The GCC Banking Sector

Download or read book The GCC Banking Sector written by Ms. May Y. Khamis and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, we analyze the evolution of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) banking sectors in the six member countries including ownership, concentration, cross-border linkages, balance sheet exposures and risks, recent trends in credit growth, and financial soundness. We identify risks to the banking sector''s financial stability in the context of the current global crisis and their mitigating factors.

Book The Corporate Governance of Banks

Download or read book The Corporate Governance of Banks written by Ross Levine and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Levine examines the corporate governance of banks. When banks efficiently mobilize and allocate funds, this lowers the cost of capital to firms, boosts capital formation, and stimulates productivity growth. So, weak governance of banks reverberates throughout the economy with negative ramifications for economic development. After reviewing the major governance concepts for corporations in general, the author discusses two special attributes of banks that make them special in practice: greater opaqueness than other industries and greater government regulation. These attributes weaken many traditional governance mechanisms. Next, he reviews emerging evidence on which government policies enhance the governance of banks and draws tentative policy lessons. In sum, existing work suggests that it is important to strengthen the ability and incentives of private investors to exert governance over banks rather than to rely excessively on government regulators. These conclusions, however, are particularly tentative because more research is needed on how legal, regulatory, and supervisory policies influence the governance of banks. This papera product of the Global Corporate Governance Forum, Corporate Governance Departmentis part of a larger effort in the department to improve the understanding of corporate governance reform in developing countries"-- World Bank web site.

Book Corporate Governance and Bank Performance

Download or read book Corporate Governance and Bank Performance written by Abdelaziz Chazi and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an exhaustive sample of banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council region, in the years 2007 to 2009, this research examines the relative operating performance and risk-taking behavior of Islamic and non-Islamic banks during the global financial crisis and the role played by their corporate governance characteristics. The results show that, during the crisis, assets of Islamic banks outperformed those of non-Islamic banks significantly. Islamic banks also exhibited a more prudent risk-management behavior and higher solvency than non-Islamic banks. Moreover, consistent with the notion of the importance of corporate governance, asset-productivity at Islamic banks is significantly increasing in family- and foreign-ownership and the effectiveness of the legal system and investor protection, and it is decreasing in board size and insiders. Furthermore, risk-taking behavior at Islamic banks is decreasing in government- and family-ownership and the investor-protection level in the home country.

Book Is Corporate Governance Different for Islamic Banks  A Comparative Analysis Between the Gulf Cooperation Council and Southeast Asian Countries

Download or read book Is Corporate Governance Different for Islamic Banks A Comparative Analysis Between the Gulf Cooperation Council and Southeast Asian Countries written by Rihab Grassa and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islamic banks are particular financial institutions which generate distinct corporate governance challenges. This study compares the corporate governance attributes between Islamic and conventional banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and in Southeast Asian countries. Moreover, this paper studies the impact of relevant corporate governance variables on the Islamic banks' performance. The sample included 77 large Islamic banks and 85 conventional banks observed over the period 2000-2009. Our findings revealed that there were several divergences between the corporate governance characteristics of Islamic banks and those of conventional banks. These differences originated mainly from the ethical aspects dominating the activities of Islamic banks and the regulatory environment in which they operate. Moreover, we found that board fee, CEO duality and CEO age had a significantly positive effect on the Islamic banks' performance. However, the Shariah board characteristics seemed to be a value creator for Islamic banks.

Book Impact of Corporate Governance on Banks

Download or read book Impact of Corporate Governance on Banks written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no specific optimal corporate governance model that may be applied to all banks since banks operate under different management, board of directors, ownership structures, and government regulations. This study examines the impact of internal corporate governance mechanisms such as board structure, ownership structure, and audit function as well as other variables such as bank size and bank age on bank financial performance. The sample of the study consists of both conventional and Islamic banks operating in Yemen and the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. Regression analysis (OLS) is used to test the aforementioned impact. The results of this study show that there is a significant relationship between internal corporate governance and bank financial performance. Board meetings and bank age have positive and significant impacts on ROE. Meanwhile, board independence and bank size have negative and significant impacts on ROA. In addition, bank age and board committees have positive impacts on Profit Margin while ownership concentration has a negative impact on this profitability measure. These results are consistent with previous studies. However, the literature indicate that the above correlation and consequent impact of internal corporate governance mechanisms on bank performance in developing countries are still not clearly established.

Book The GCC Banking Sector

Download or read book The GCC Banking Sector written by Abdullah Al-Hassan and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, we analyze the evolution of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) banking sectors in the six member countries including ownership, concentration, cross-border linkages, balance sheet exposures and risks, recent trends in credit growth, and financial soundness. We identify risks to the banking sector's financial stability in the context of the current global crisis and their mitigating factors.

Book The Law on Corporate Governance in Banks

Download or read book The Law on Corporate Governance in Banks written by Iris H-Y Chiu and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate governance in financial institutions has come under the spotlight since the banking crisis in the UK in 2008-9. In many respects, the banking business raises unique problems for corporate governance that are not found in other corporate secto

Book Corporate Governance in Banking

Download or read book Corporate Governance in Banking written by Benton E. Gup and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sarbannes-Oxley Act of 2002 was enacted in reaction to the Enron and WorldCom bankruptcies, resulting in major changes in corporate governance in the US. Little attention has been paid, however, to international laws and recommendations dealing with corporate governance in banking from a global perspective. This book seeks to remedy this.

Book Handbook on Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions

Download or read book Handbook on Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions written by Christine A. Mallin and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global financial crisis has led to more and more focus on corporate governance and financial institutions. There has been much coverage in the media about various corporate governance related issues in banks and other financial institutions, such as executive directors' remuneration and bankers' bonuses, board composition and board diversity. This book, dedicated to the corporate governance of banks and other financial institutions, makes a timely and accessible contribution to the literature in this area. The contributors are experts in their field with in-depth knowledge of the various countries including Italy, the UK, Germany, the US, China, Japan, Brazil, Russia, Australia and Nigeria, plus a chapter on Islamic financial institutions, covered in this book. Overall, the engagingly written chapters highlight many of the shortcomings of corporate governance which have led to financial scandals, whilst indicating areas where corporate governance can be strengthened and improved. Adding depth and accessibility to existing corporate governance books, this Handbook is ideal as a teaching and learning tool for undergraduate and postgraduate students. For directors and the general business and wider stakeholder communities concerned with corporate governance, it is an essential resource. Contributors:C.L. Ahmadjian, K.-J. Chang, M.J. Conyon, F. Cuomo, H. Farag, L. He, H.-Y Liang, I. Love, C.A. Mallin, C. Ogbechie, B. Okhunjanov, G. Pearson, S. Prigge, R.F. Schiozer, O.K. Tam, P.R.S. Terra, A. Zattoni