Search for dissertations about: "corporate governance in government"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words corporate governance in government.
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1. Supply Chain Governance for Social Sustainability : A Study of the Ready-Made Garment Industry in Bangladesh
Abstract : This PhD thesis approaches the phenomenon of supply chain governance for social sustainability in the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh. This research is based on a study of eight large multinational corporations (e.g. clothing brands and retailers) and their ready-made garment suppliers. READ MORE
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2. Shifting Responsibilities and Shifting Terrains : State Responsibility, Corporate Social Responsibility and Indigenous Claims
Abstract : Using case studies from Australia, Sweden and Finland, and also drawing on examples from parts of Asia, including Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Thailand, the thesis explores how state and market actors respond to Indigenous claims and how Indigenous claims are themselves reconstituted through those particular responses. While the duty of protecting Indigenous rights might nominally fall upon the state, we are increasingly witness to the enfolding of market actors and market rationalities in debates concerning Indigenous claims. READ MORE
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3. Corporate Ownership and Liquidity in China’s Stock Markets
Abstract : This thesis consists of an introduction and three self-contained chapters that address liquidity issues related to corporate ownership in the Chinese stock markets. The first paper provides new insight into the relation between foreign institutional investors and stock liquidity by employing the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) scheme in the Chinese stock markets. READ MORE
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4. The extent and determinates of internet corporate reporting by Malaysian listed companies
Abstract : In response to the wave of well-publicized corporate scandals, firms in the US, New Zealand, Singapore and other countries have enhanced its transparency via adoption of Internet technology that provides a new way for firm to make continuous disclosure of corporate information. This is an important and emerging financial reporting issue worldwide as more public listed firms now executive their transaction and events online and prepared online and real-time financial reports. READ MORE
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5. Navigating Troubled Waters : An analysis of how urban water regimes in the global South reproduce inequality
Abstract : This research is an attempt to conceptualize the underlying forces behind persistent and ubiquitous problems of inequality in access to water in cities of the global south. Inequality in water access is hypothesized to result from urban water regimes that tend to prioritize the right to water access or to provide preferential terms of access for some groups in society, while marginalizing others. READ MORE
