Reports of corporate crimes have become commonplace in the media. Names such as Adelphia, Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Northern Rock, Parmalat, and Halliburton have become synonymous with scandals and corporate misdeeds. Corporate crime is not a recent phenomenon, however, as is evident from Clinard’s and Yeager’s (2006) mid-1970s data which showed many incidents of serious crimes, particularly in large corporations. The website http://corporatecrimereporter.com illustrates the magnitude, cost and pervasiveness of corporate crimes.

The Social Science Research Network has a new Corporate Governance Network. At the moment, the research papers series are the Oxford Internet Institute Research Paper Series and the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper Series.  The Subject Matter eJournals provide access to 25 journals (including archives) that can be accessed by an SSRN [...]

The Corporate Library has publised several reports looking at compensation structures, impact of corporate governance on returns, companies that combine CE and Chair posts, and board actions when companies were in financial difficulties in the United States.

The Securities Investors Association (Singapore), SIAS, will hold an Investors’ Corporate Goverance Conference on 8 October 2008. The conference is organized on the premise that global competitiveness is preceded by good corporate governance. Some of the issues that will be discussed are: Can companies get a competitive edge using corporate governance? How can companies create [...]