Vancouver— A leading figure in the fight for financial regulation reform in the United States made his case for sweeping changes to an audience of pension funds managers, institutional investors and business academics at SFU’s Segal Graduate School of Business in downtown Vancouver yesterday.

Damon Silvers, the Deputy Chair of the Congressional . . . → Read More: Global experts dissect investment environment in wake of financial meltdown

In the strategy literature, corporate governance is an “important factor affecting the firm’s performance and long-term survival” (Filatotchev, Toms & Wright, 2006: 257). Research on board size and independence – posited to help firms reduce managers’ self-interested behavior, and manage transaction costs and resource dependencies (Boone et al., 2007; Filatotchev et al., 2006; . . . → Read More: Strategic Governance for Sustainable Competitive Advantage

My research interest in the how firms address social issues led me recently to engaged in a research project to investigate the relationship between the level of firms’ acknowledgment of outside entities– broadly referred to as stakeholders, and including various groups such as shareholders, employees, customers, communities, NGOs, governments – and firms’ likelihood . . . → Read More: Stakeholders, Social Activities and Fannie and Freddie

IT governance is a complex beast. We take you through some of the legislation, standards and best practices

By Danny Bradbury

You run a bank and you are in a quandary. A new technology is emerging that will change the way customers interact with you; in the ’70s it may have been ATM . . . → Read More: Michael Parent Interviewed for Article on Understanding Governance