Impact of New Corporate Governance Code on Disclosures: Evidences from Bahraini Listed Commercial Banks

• Published in: Advances in management and applied economics Vol. 3; no. 3; p. 171
• Main Author: Kukreja, Gagan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Athens Scientific Press International Limited 01.05.2013
• Subjects: Annual reports; Boards of directors; Central banks; Commercial banks; Committees; Corporate governance; Directors; Disclosure; Economic crisis; Economic growth; GDP; Gross Domestic Product; Impact analysis; International finance; Literature reviews; Principles; Questionnaires; Stakeholders; Stockholders; Studies; Bahrain

Corporate Governance has attracted a great deal of public interest after numerous financial irregularities occurred across the globe such as, Olympus, Satyam, Enron, WorldCom, AIG and so on. Taking cognizance of this, The Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MOIC) of Bahrain issued a Code of Corporate...