Corporate Governance: Known, Unknown, and the Wrongly Known

Author(s)

Pankaj K. Maskara, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Anita Maskara
Rajesh Aggarwal

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Journal of Business and Economics

ISSN

2155-7950

Publication Date

2013

Abstract/Excerpt

We survey the literature and identify the different measures of corporate governance used in the academic literature and those used in the corporate world. We also analyze the characteristics of the firm captured by academic researchers and the commercial vendors to compose such indices. Even though corporate governance in accounting and finance deals with shareholder rights and corporate disclosures we document that none of the measures account for corporate disclosures. We argue that shareholder rights and corporate disclosures are complementary components of corporate governance. In the absence of timely information shareholders cannot exercise their rights effectively. Therefore, we conclude with the recommendation that future measures incorporate timeliness and quality of corporate disclosures in corporate governance measures.

Volume

4

Issue

2

First Page

105

Last Page

123

NSUWorks Citation

Maskara, Pankaj K.; Maskara, Anita; and Aggarwal, Rajesh, "Corporate Governance: Known, Unknown, and the Wrongly Known" (2013). HCBE Faculty Articles. 829.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcbe_facarticles/829