Examining the Link Between Religion and Corporate Governance: Insights From Nigeria

This article examines whether the degree of religiosity in an institutional environment can stimulate the emergence of a robust corporate governance system. This study utilizes the Nigerian business environment as its context and embraces a qualitative interpretivist research approach. This approach permitted the engagement of a qualitative content analysis (QCA) methodology to generate insights from interviewees. Findings from the study indicate that despite the high religiosity among Nigerians, religion has not stimulated the desired corporate governance system in Nigeria. The primary explanation for this outcome is the presence of rational ordering over religious preferences thus highlighting the fact that religion, as presently understood and practiced by stakeholders, is inconsistent with the principles underpinning good corporate governance

A Better Response Rate for Questionnaires: Attitudes of Librarians in Nigerian University Libraries

This study investigates librarian attitudes towards the completion of questionnaires in Nigerian university libraries. Data was collected from 57 librarians in three Nigerian university libraries. Respondents receive several questionnaires each year. Most respond to all, but those who do not cite lack of time. Those who respond to questionnaires mostly do so to assist the researchers. Library and information science (LIS) students send most questionnaires that are received, followed by LIS professionals. Lengthy questionnaires and lack of relevance to their field of specialization are some problems militating against questionnaire completion. LIS professional association and library management should organize workshops for librarians to encourage response, and researchers should consult appropriate literature to improve response rate

Principals and teachers' perceptions of communication and human resources management and their compliance with culture in Nigerian educational system

This paper attempted to establish the influence of communication in human resource management and its compliance with culture in Nigeria educational system. To achieve this, three research questions and three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study based on a correlational design. The population of the study included all principals and teachers for public secondary schools in Delta State. Form the existing 265 schools, the researcher sampled 54 (20%) principals/schools, and 335(5%) teachers were selected through simple random sampling technique. An instrument was constructed to gather data in the study on communication and human resource management in a particular cultural setting. The instrument was validated and found reliable. Data generated were analyzed with Pearson 'r' statistic. The result of the findings revealed that human resources management undergoes different form of training and development by way of effective communication. The results also revealed that there is a significant relationship between principals and teachers' perceptions of communication and human resources management and their compliance with culture in terms of staff recruitment, training and development in Nigerian educational system. The researcher therefore recommended that human resource in schools that are not trained professionals, for lack of effective communication, should be advised to go for further training to develop skills which depend on effective communication in a particular cultural setting and by way of improving the efficiency of human resources and the ability to communicate a suitable cooperate culture. Since culture is not static and communication is not a purely inborn ability; it is necessary therefore to develop them

Corporate governance regulation: a practice theory perspective

Employing Bourdieu’s practice theory, this paper explores factors that influence corporate executives’ behaviour towards corporate governance regulation. Drawing insights from a weak institutional environment (Nigeria) and relying on a qualitative research methodology (semi-structured interviews with 31 executives), this research uncovers how nine nuanced situational and cultural field factors determine executives’ regulatory response to the severity of punishment, the certainty of penalties, and the cost-benefit compliance considerations. The study further explains how sequential rationalisation between the severity and certainty of punishment contributes to the regulatory apathy that executives exhibit. Theoretically, this study demonstrates how practice theory components (habitus, capital, and field) blend to establish executives’ regulatory practice

Nigerian professional investors' sensemaking of the impact of shareholder activism on corporate accountability

This study investigates the perceptions of professional investors (PIs) on the impact of three groups of shareholder activists (i.e., reputable, sophisticated, or institutional) on corporate accountability in a weak institutional context and how this shapes the PIs’ investment recommendations. Relying on a sense-making theoretical perspective of the power and competence of shareholder activists obtained through semi-structured interviews with 27 Nigerian PIs, we reveal that the impact of shareholder activism occurs in three activism-accountability dimensions: dominant, insignificant, and emerging. Subsequently, we unpack factors that explain the power and influence of the dominant activism of reputable activists, the insignificant activism of sophisticated activists and the emerging activism of institutional activists. By advocating a contextual understanding of shareholder activism, this article sheds much-needed insights into the concept of ‘activism-accountability’ in a weak institutional environment