Whistleblowing and Good Governance

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) has forever changed corporate governance for publicly held corporations. Recent data suggest that the costs of compliance with the provisions of SOX can be very significant. Problems exist in the government and nonprofit sectors just as they do in the corporate sector. Recent alleged problems at the World Bank include kickbacks, payoffs, bribery, embezzlement, and collusive bidding. In 2002, the United Way scandal came to the public\u27s attention. Its aftermath has had a dramatic impact on fundraising. Even universities are not immune from scandals. Organizations of all kinds should better understand what whistleblowing is, what the components of a whistleblowing policy are, and where to turn for more information. All organizations, including universities, governmental entities, and nonprofits, should consider implementing whistleblowing provisions. The purpose of this article is to increase awareness of the need for whistleblower policies for universities, governmental entities, and nonprofit organizations

Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the recipients in terms of what they receive. The leaders of potential recipient countries look at aid availability through this contest as part of the competing objectives they face – some good, some not good. The donor country prefers a contest under which the aid will only go to one country while the leaders of the receiving countries prefer that each country obtains the proportion of aid relative to its governance quality. If poverty reduction is an independent goal as well, a poverty trap may be created. With good governance as a criterion, donors may work through both bilateral and multilateral agencies.foreign aid, governance, decentralization, rent seeking

PRACTICE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Corporate governance reforms are implemented around the world and may impact upon the population worldwide. In developing countries, such reforms are implemented in a broader context that is primarily defined by previous attempts of promoting “development” and recent processes of economic globalization. In this context, corporate governance reforms (in combination with the liberalization reforms associated with the economic globalization), in effect, represent a new development strategy for third world countries. The basic questions arising with respect to this situation are: what are the prospects for this new development model and whether alternatives should be considered.governance; corporate governance; economic globalization; development

Motivational Aspect of Good Governance

A government job is what most job seekers look for in Pakistan. With a feudal background and job culture inherited from British India, government jobs are believed to provide security, permanency, status and privileged treatment in day to day affairs. But where entering into government jobs is attractive, working in a government atmosphere is often found to be boring, monotonous, and devoid of enthusiasm. Attending office is a matter of killing time. One comes late and leaves early. There is no incentive to work hard, as promotions and benefits depend on seniority not on performance. Coercion seems to be the only management technique, which at times fails or fires back if the manager is not very tactful. Management theories and motivational concepts are foreign names in government departments. Without including the motivational aspects of good governance it would be futile to try to improve performance.

DEVELOPING A GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Good corporate governance is an important step in building market confidence and encouraging more stable, long-term international investment flows. The business corporation is an increasingly important engine for wealth creation worldwide, and how companies are run will influence welfare in society as a whole. In order to serve this wealth creating function, companies must operate within a framework that keeps them focused on their objectives and accountable for their actions. Many countries see better corporate governance practices as a way to improve economic dynamism and thus enhance overall economic performance.corporate governance, ownership, shareholders, top management

Good Governance, Trade and Agglomeration

We develop a model for developing countries that investigates the factors behind agglomeration of activities in urban giants. Firstly we show that relatively easier market access to external demand provided by the urban giant tends to attract entrepreneurs to this place. Secondly we find that the attractive power of the urban giant can be linked to a lack of democracy. Indeed we demonstrate that democracy acts as a dispersive force in the sense that by reversing the cost of living effect, it allows to reduce the spatial inequality and then the tendency of agglomeration. Lastly we analyse how the funds embezzled by a bad government vary according to internal and external trade liberalisation. We show that a decrease in the disadvantage of the periphery to trade with the external market can limit the funds embezzled by a Leviathan.Economic geography; Cities; Trade; Corruption

Pengaruh Good Corporate Governance , Ukuran Perusahaan dan Leverage terhadap Kinerja Keuangan Perusahaan

This research aims to empirically prove that influence the size of commissioners, size of independent commissioners, size of directors, the size of audit committee, the size of corporation andleverage toward corporation's financial performances partially and simultaneously. The objectof this research is manufacturing corporation sector and chemical industry base which is registered in Indonesian stock exchange 2012-2013.The date which is used is secondary data directlyobatained from website of BEI and each of corporations' website by using documentationtehcnique. The data is analyzed by using double regression analysis method and hypotheses.This research concludes that simultaneously test shows the result that commssioners variable,independent commssioners, directors, audit committee, size of corporation,and Leverage whichhas positive influence and significant on the change of financial performance dependent variable. Meanwhile partially test shows the result that only variable of directors and leveragewhich has significantly influence toward financial performance and partially commissionersvariable, indeopendent coommissioners,audit committee,and the size of corporation do not havethe significant influence toward financial performances.Ke ywords: Size of commissioners, size of independent commissioners, size of directors, size ofaudit committee, size of the corporation,and Leverage, financial performance

Good Governance dalam Perspektif Perguruan Tinggi Swasta untuk Menghadapi Persaingan

Every organization has an aim which is either profit oriented or non profit oriented. In other words, organizations deal with the effectiveness of their operation. In order lo achieve their goal, they must handicap a nature, structure and business environment. The process to achieve all organization goals needs several tool. A Good Governance is one of the tolls that takes an important responsibility role to principal and stakeholders. His paper draws six principles based of good governance which measure efficiency and effectiveness of public organization as universities and academic. Moreover, these principles evaluate the organization performance

Pengaruh Good Corporate Governance, Ukuran Perusahaan, dan Leverage terhadap Integritas Laporan Keuangan

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of good corporate governance being inspected toindependent commissioners and institutional ownership, firm size and influence on the integrity of financial statements. The population of this study is a mining company listed on theIndonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) in 2012-2015. The sample is determined by purposive samplingmethod, with total samples of 11 mining companies for total observation in this research are 44observations. The results of this study prove that independent commissioners have a positiveimpact on the integrity of financial statements. As for institutional ownership and leverage havea negative impact on the integrity of financial statements. And firm size proved not to affect theintegrity of financial statements.Ke y wo rds: Company Size, Good Corporate Governance, Integrity of Financial Statement,Leverag