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Corporate governance and elites

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  • Franklin Nakpodia
  • Emmanuel Adegbite

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Using a qualitative methodology (interviews), we examine the relationship between the effectiveness of corporate governance mechanisms and elitist interventions. In doing this, we identify three elitist groups – political, cultural and religious, and investigate how they shape the legitimacy and effectiveness (or otherwise) of the institutional drivers of corporate governance in Nigeria. We caution the widely-held notion in the literature which suggests that institutions act as a check on the behaviour of elites and influence how elites compete and emerge. Alternatively, we argue that elites, in the presence of institutional voids, can invent, circumvent and corrupt institutions.

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  • Franklin Nakpodia & Emmanuel Adegbite, 2018. "Corporate governance and elites," Accounting Forum, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(1), pages 17-31, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:accfor:v:42:y:2018:i:1:p:17-31
    DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2017.11.002
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