A cross-firm analysis of the impact of corporate governance on the East Asian financial crisis

Corporate Governance, Family Ownership and Earnings Management: Emerging Market Evidence

“…(Demirag & Serter, 2003;Yurtoğlu, 2003). Mitton (2002) suggests that legal protection deficiency over property rights provides firms some power to expropriate minority shareholder interests. In Turkey, there is inadequate protection of minority rights because of the underdeveloped equity culture of capital markets, the dominance of long term debt finance, and the inadequate legal environment.…”

Good Corporate Governance and Cost of Debt: Listed Companies on Indonesian Institute for Corporate Governance

“…Johnson et al (2000) show that countries with weak legal protection for minority shareholders affected by the crisis more severe than countries with strong legal protection. Mitton (2002) also found that corporate governance has a strong positive impact on the company's performance during the financial crisis. Based on these phenomena implementation of Good Corporate Governance (GCG) becomes important to be consistently applied.…”

Corporate Governance Structure and Its Relationship with Audit Fee-Evidence from Malaysian Public Listed Companies

“…Since the aftermath of the 1997 East Asian financial crisis, Asian Tigers including Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia (Sawicki, 2009) have taken a leap to improve their Corporate Governance (CG) as it was identified that a weaker CG escalated the crisis (Mitton, 2002). In 2007, the new revised Malaysian Code of Corporate Governance (MCCG) was issued to replace the previous MCCG 2001 and several improvements have been proposed to strengthen the entity's CG especially for those companies which are publicly listed in Bursa Malaysia.…”