RT Article
T1 Corporate Governance in South Africa
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 37
IS 3
SP 289
OP 302
A1 Rossouw, G. J.
A1 van der Watt, A.
A1 Rossouw, D. P. Malan
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2002
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785617524
AB The King Report on Corporate Governance (1994) evoked unprecedented interest in corporate governance in South Africa. This does not mean that corporate governance was not an issue of concern before the release of this historical report. To the contrary, corporate governance in its broader sense has been at stake since the inception of the first publicly owned companies in South Africa. This article intends to give an overview of corporate governance in South Africa. It starts by making a distinction between broad and narrow conceptions of corporate governance. Before applying this distinction to the practice of corporate governance in South Africa, a brief overview of the corporate landscape in South Africa is provided. Then the South African situation with regard to broad and narrow corporate governance respectively is analysed. The article ends with a discussion of the review of corporate governance that currently is in the making in South Africa. Throughout the article both the financial and ethical dimensions of corporate governance is attended to.
K1 Ethical Dimension
K1 Broad Sense
K1 Stake
K1 Corporate Governance
K1 Economic Growth
DO 10.1023/A:1015205511601