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S/F/242. Do Corporate Governance Codes Provide Necessary Safeguard for Investors? From Cadbury Report to New Combined Code

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2500
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2009
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The paper addresses the issues of corporate governance (CG) reviewing the agency theory by Jensen and Meckling, considering types of conflicts related to CG, discussing the contribution of the Cadbury Report to the CG code of practice, examining the New Combined Code of July 2003, and highlighting positive and negative aspects of the existing CG codes.

 

KEYWORDS: corporate governance codes, Cadbury Report, agency theory,