Search for dissertations about: "corporate governance theory and practice"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words corporate governance theory and practice.

2. 1. The coexistence of family, ownership, and business : Conceptualizing entanglement and business family ownering

   Author : Lisa Bäckvall; Leif Melin; Anna Larsson; Robin Holt; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Family Business; Entanglement; Collective Subjective Corpus; Three-Circle Model of Family Business; Social Praxeology; Practice Theory; Business Family; Business Family Ownership Practice; Business Family Owning; Governance; CEO;

   Abstract : This research engages with the topic of business family ownership through an ethnographically inspired study of business governance-related activities constructed as family members’ business-owning practices relationally and over time. In short, it is about what business families do when owning businesses and how this form of owning can be conceptualized. READ MORE

4. 2. Unpackaging IT Governance : A study of Chief Information Officers in Large, Swedish Organizations

   Author : Johan Magnusson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; IT Governance; Translation; Unpackaging; Chief Information Officer; Legitimacy; Institutional Theory; Marginal Man; Professionalization;

   Abstract : Information Technology (IT) has during the last decades become a central tenet in the infrastructure for value-creation. To manage and successfully ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of IT as a corporate resource, organizations have turned to what is referred to as “IT Governance”. READ MORE

5. 3. Internet corporate reporting disclosure and transparency

   Author : Saeid Homayoun; Gary M. Cunningham; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Redovisning och styrning; Accounting and Control;

   Abstract : The recent wave of well-publicized global corporate accounting scandals has highlighted the importance of the enhanced adoption of Internet technology and hence the increased transparency resulting from the enhanced disclosure of firm information. The objective of this study is to explore and identify Internet corporate reporting (ICR) disclosure in a context of publically listed firms. READ MORE

6. 4. Institutionalisation of corporate social responsibilities: synergies between the practices of leading multinational enterprises and human rights law/policy

   Author : Radu Mares; Juridiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Allmän rättslära; Jurisprudence; Mänskliga rättigheter; Human rights; regime; partnerships; regulatory theory; stakeholder; disclosure; corporate governance; accountability; Industrial and commercial law; Associationsrätt; handelsrätt;

   Abstract : The study accounts for recent developments in corporate voluntarism and assesses the evolving corporate social responsibility (CSR) regime. CSR proposes a new norm for how large businesses should approach complexity in a modern economy. The first chapter anchors the CSR discussion in a company law and corporate governance context. READ MORE

7. 5. Exploring Responsibility : Public and Private in Human Rights Protection

   Author : Magdalena Bexell; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; transnational oil corporations; NGOs; global governance; international norms; responsibility; accountability; public-private; corporate social responsibility; human rights; international relations; Human Rights; Political and administrative sciences; förvaltningskunskap; Mänskliga rättigheter; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

   Abstract : The theory and practice of international relations are replete with dilemmas related to the distribution of responsibility for human rights protection. Institutionalized notions of public and private empower and shape knowledge of what the spheres of responsibility signify for different kinds of actors. READ MORE