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Corporate Governance in the Modern Era

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Corporate Governance in the Modern Era   Corporate boards in this era are faced with significant and unprecedented trials including but not limited to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the economic fallout and more. The Boards of directors have been compelled to direct and navigate unanticipated risks created by these sources whilst ensuring business financial performance. This also means that a good board of directors will have to include individuals from diverse background to enable strong governance and better handling of unprecedented circumstances.   What is Corporate Governance?   As stated by (Kiradoo, 2016) , corporate governance is the set of best practices and moral conduct that supports the serving the stakeholder interest. The rules of corporate governance are set with fairness, integrity, honesty, social responsibility and independence at the core (Tricker, 2015) .   As defined by (Zingales, 1998a) , “governance systems as the complex set of constraints th...

Regenerative Leadership – The New Sustainability?

  There has been some significant movement in the present-day around the notion of regenerative leadership. As fittingly stated by the famous American Environmentalist Paul Hawken, this is “a planetary immune response” to the global crisis the mankind is facing and more voices speaking of regenerative leadership shouldn’t really come as a surprise. The need for regeneration of our social and ecological systems is progressively growing and interpretation of “regeneration” may vary from one person to another. Several scholars have examined this area of study to generate a substantive theory of leadership; regenerative leadership. This leadership approach is thought to be relevant in this era of global crisis with accelerating transformation and growing evidence that our natural and social systems have reached a point of collapse. Most studies revealed that the construct of sustainability is being questioned by modern-day leaders increasingly as more evolved they are becoming wh...