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- Title
WAPDA-HUBCO Dispute: Corporate Governance Failure.
- Authors
Anjam, Mahwish; Siddiqui, Kamran
- Abstract
For a poor country like Pakistan, corruption is a major political, economic and social issue. Despite the efforts of successive governments, this cancer continues unabated, and while the army-led governments undoubtedly provide better governance as compared to their civilian predecessors, corruption is too deeply ingrained as a way of life to disappear overnight. Hence, a mega project like HUBCO could not possibly be free from this taint. As a prominent Pakistani columnist famously retorted in response to a politician's protest that there was no evidence of corruption, "Does a thief give you a receipt when he steals from you?"
- Subjects
CORPORATE governance; CORRUPTION -- Social aspects; BUSINESS success; BUSINESS failures; ORGANIZATIONAL performance; INDUSTRIAL management
- Publication
IUP Journal of Corporate Governance, 2013, Vol 12, Issue 4, p62
- ISSN
0972-6853
- Publication type
Article