Corporate Governance in State Owned Enterprises: A case Study of Namibia Housing Enterprises (NHE
Abstract
The issues of good corporate governance has emerged to be matters of serious concern in StateOwned Enterprises. So much scholarly articles have been published all over the world about
good corporate governance, thus, guidelines, practice and principles. Namibian State-Owned
Enterprises (SOEs) have been under criticism publicly over the poor governance in recent times.
This report reviews the governance at one of Namibia’ State-Owned-Enterprises, NHE which was
under public criticism over its governance recently. This paper seeks to understand the causes of
poor governance in State Owned Enterprises in Namibia. The data used in this research paper is
drawn from literature available and interview conduct with NHE employees on good
governance. The findings of the research paper points out to inexperienced Board members, lack
of transparency and openness, the size of the structures of the Board, imbalanced Board in
terms of skills and knowledge, lack of diversity, size and Board compositions.
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