“The movement on corporate social responsibility has won the battle of ideas.” This was the opening line of a 20-page supplement on CSR in The Economist in early 2005 (Crook, 2005). InRead More…
Corporate Governance in Retrospect.
The early commercial voyages and enterprises commenced the governance of corporations. The East India Company and the business partnership betwixt joint stock companies are some of the instances. With time, however, theRead More…
DISSECTING THE JUSTICE DELIVERY MECHANISM UNDER THE COMPANIES ACT.
Introduction: The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal and National Company Law Tribunal were formulated on 1st June 2016. The demand for a distinctive and unequivocal tribunal was introduced by the Honourable SupremeRead More…
A FEW COMMON MISTAKES TO AVOID IN CORPORATE BOARDROOMS.
An environment that is deficient of and lacks a transparent form of communication makes it challenging and precarious to resolve key issues. Since the stakes are unusually high in a boardroom andRead More…
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE INSOLVENCY & BANKRUPTCY CODE.
India has been admonished and berated for having fallen behind in terms of the development of its corporate economy. In recent years, however, numerous initiatives have been taken to revamp the corporateRead More…
Best Practices to Strengthen the Corporate Governance Framework.
In essence, corporate governance is a set of standards or rules that enables organizations to ensure that they are rightfully serving the needs & wants of all the stakeholders that it engagesRead More…
Lessons in Corporate Governance From 2018.
Financial reporting fraud including deliberate falsification of values and non-disclosure induces information risks along with serious quarrels amongst the stakeholders. When talking about investments, the investors usually prefer companies that have anRead More…
Needed: A #MeToo Campaign For The Corporate World?
Such a maleficent topic of #MeToo isn’t just confined to the entertainment industry, but cases of sexual harassment are predominantly existent in the workplace environment too. It’s hard to imagine that anyRead More…
The Prominence of Performance Evaluation of Board of Directors.
While it is a herculean statement, it is also a fact that boards of directors are ultimately liable for policies, procedures, and practices that will shape whether the organisation will thrive orRead More…
How Independent are Independent Directors?
On paper, the laws for independent directors in India are as rigid as anywhere else in the world. The issue is how well are they implemented. People do not generally understand theRead More…