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The prevalence of corporate governance theories in the South Afrian platinum mining industry
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23167 The prevalence of corporate governance theories in the South Afrian platinum mining industry Price, Gavin upetd@up.ac.za Mcube, Hlonitshwa UCTD Corporate governance Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. The primary objective of this study is to test the theoretical framework relating to three major Corporate Governance (CG) hypotheses by means of reviewing cited literature and testing it in the corporate field. These are the Agency, stakeholder and shareholder theories. Many scholars have recognised the predominance of agency theory compared to the others. The literature demonstrates that the agency theory is substantially more established in practice with limited discussions and debate around other two theories. The research adopted a two-phase research approach, which employed qualitative and quantitative methods to collect empirical data. The findings from the field reveal that the Agency Theory indeed succeeds; however, the respondents’ opinions are that academic writers have unnecessarily overstated it. Concurring with claims by writers that the relationship between senior managers and shareholders does not exist, it is found in this research that there is no need for the relationship to exist. The study also found no evidence that senior managers are treated as agents, which is the basis of agency theory. Copyright Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T14:41:45Z 2010-05-28 2013-09-06T14:41:45Z 2010-03-13 2010-05-28 2010-03-13 Dissertation Mcube, H 2008, The prevalence of corporate governance theories in the South Afrian platinum mining industry, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23167 > G10/51/mh http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23167 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03132010-170415/ © 2008, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Corporate governance The prevalence of corporate governance theories in the South Afrian platinum mining industry |
| title | The prevalence of corporate governance theories in the South Afrian platinum mining industry |
| title_full | The prevalence of corporate governance theories in the South Afrian platinum mining industry |
| title_fullStr | The prevalence of corporate governance theories in the South Afrian platinum mining industry |
| title_full_unstemmed | The prevalence of corporate governance theories in the South Afrian platinum mining industry |
| title_short | The prevalence of corporate governance theories in the South Afrian platinum mining industry |
| title_sort | prevalence of corporate governance theories in the south afrian platinum mining industry |
| topic | UCTD Corporate governance |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23167 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03132010-170415/ |