Corporate governance and disclosure in Africa: Issues and challenges

By C. Okeahalam. 2004

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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In Accounting

1. Victor Mutisya Kalani
2. D. Barako
3. N. Waweru
4. Collins G. Ntim

In Strategy and Management

1. Victor Mutisya Kalani
2. D. Barako
3. N. Waweru
4. Collins G. Ntim

Citations in the corpus

• Corporate Boards, Ownership Structure and Firm Performance in an Environment of Severe Political and Economic Crisis (2012, unknown): “INSERT TABLE 2 ABOUT HERE Table 2 also illustrates that on average the size of the board is approximately nine members, thus consistent with previous studies (e.g., Okeahalam, 2004; Mangena and Tauringana, 2007).”
• Disclosure, Corporate Governance and Foreign Share Ownership on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (2007, unknown): “For the corporate governance variables, Table 2 illustrates that on average the size of boards in ZSE-listed firms is approximately nine, thus consistent with Okeahalam (2004), and well above the two required by the Companies Act (Chapter 24:03).”
• Commercial Banking Crises in Kenya: Causes and Remedies (2009, background): “While studying corporate governance in Africa, Okeahalam (2004) reported that the efficiency of the judicial system in Kenya lags behind South Africa, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.”
• Voluntary Corporate Governance Disclosures by Post-Apartheid South African Corporations (2012, unknown): “Corporate ownership in SA has historically been dominated by a small set of very large companies built around highly complicated cross-holdings and tall pyramids (Barr et al., 1995; Okeahalam, 2004) and, as such, block ownership is more likely to influence voluntary CG disclosure.”
• Determinants of voluntary disclosures in Kenyan companies annual reports (2007, background): “Generally, there is a dearth of empirical research studies on disclosure practices of Kenyan companies (Barako et al., 2006), and within the African context, Okeahalam (2004) emphasis that " the relationship between firms' voluntary disclosure and corporate governance needs to examined " .”