Corporate Governance Challenges in Pakistan - Perceptions and Potential Routes Forward

Corporate Governance Failures in Emerging Economies - Evidence from Pakistan provides detailed insights regarding corporate governance practices, legal and regulatory frameworks, drivers of corporate governance codes, levels of compliance and various corporate governance mechanisms in an emerging market context. The material outlines and discusses potential challenges to corporate governance development in these settings, emphasizing the wide array of formal and informal institutional factors that have both permitted and fostered corporate governance failures and scandals in Pakistan.

This book will be of interest to anyone who is concerned with exploring issues relating to corporate governance outcomes in emerging market contexts and the relevance of institutional theory in offering explanations for the observed behaviour.


Dr. Zia is a Head of Accounting and Finance at International College of Dundee, University of Dundee. Dr. Zia completed his PhD in Accounting and Finance at the School of Business, University of Dundee in September 2020. His PhD thesis title was 'Corporate Governance Failures in Pakistan - Perceptions, Causes and Implications'. Dr. Zia was supervised by Prof. Bruce Burton and Dr. Elizabeth Monk, and externally examined by Prof. Jill Atkins.
Prof. Burton is Professor of Finance at School of Business, University of Dundee. He is also the Director of the Centre for Qualitative Research in Finance (CQRF) and Founding Editor of Qualitative Research in Financial Markets (QRFM). Professor Burton has published more than 70 articles, book chapters and monographs in leading academic outlets focusing on corporate and market failures and challenges to the conventional notions underpinning studies of modern financial markets.