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The motivation for identifying and using ethical perspectives in decision-making regarding corporate governance has been growing in importance over the last 25 years. In the UK for example there have been four important and influential reports termed Corporate Governance Codes published in the 1990s: Cadbury Report (1992), Greenbury Committee (1995), Hampel Committee Report (1998) and Turnbull Committee Report (1999) (Letza 2015, p. 190). Indeed, these reports laid the foundations of corporate governance for the UK as well as other developed and developing economies. Following the collapse of Enron and WorldCom in 2001, corporate governance gained a much higher profile and was further developed through the Myners Report (2001), Derek Higgs Report (2003), Smith Report (2003), Myners Review (2004), Walker Review (2009) and a revised Combined Code (2012) (ibid.). During the twenty-first century we have witnessed a growing number of research projects and literature on both the general areas of corporate governance and different mechanisms, including directors’ remuneration, accountability, non-executive directors (NEDs) and audit committees.
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Nwanji, T.I. (2016). Ethical Perspectives on Corporate Governance. In: Howell, K., Sorour, M. (eds) Corporate Governance in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56700-0_3
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