Potential Risks due to Poor Corporate Governance
Weaknesses in corporate governance practices and stakeholder management processes expose a company and its stakeholders to several risks. The reverse scenario is that effective corporate governance and stakeholder management practices can create several benefits for a company and its stakeholders….
Mechanisms to Manage Stakeholder Relationships and Mitigation of Associated Risks
In seeking to balance stakeholder interests, a company may employ various mechanisms in stakeholder management. Common mechanisms include: holding general meetings, electing a board of directors, having an audit function, company reporting and transparency, policies on related-party transactions, and remuneration…
Principal-Agent Relationships in Corporate Governance
The term ‘Principal-agent relationship’ or just simply, ‘Agency relationship’ is used to describe an arrangement where one entity, the principal, legally appoints another entity, the agent, to act on its behalf by providing a service or performing a particular task….
Chi-square and F-Distributions
Chi-square Distribution A chi-square distribution is an asymmetrical family of distributions. A chi-square distribution with \(v\) degrees of freedom is the distribution of the sum of the squares of \(v\) independent standard normally distributed random variables. Intuitively, chi-square distributions take…
