The Critical Analysis of some Northern Asian Corporate Governance Standards after the Global Crisis – Cases in Singapore and Pakistan

Abstract

Over the past years, there are many corporate scandals in financial and non-financial sectors all over the world, which represents a weak corporate governance structure. The application of quality management in corporate governance has not been tested, checked and show its effectiveness. The aim of this paper is to present a set of comparative corporate governance standards in some Northern Asian countries including: Singapore and Pakistan. With the use of qualitative combined with comparative analysis method, there are strengths and weaknesses in these codes or practices which will be identified in this paperwork.