Dr Simon Norton - Associate Member of BRASS

Career Experience and Qualifications

LLB (Cardiff Law School, University of Wales)
LLM (Cardiff Law School, University of Wales)
PhD (Department of Maritime Studies, University of Wales)

Research Areas of Interest

Corporate governance in the context of financial institutions
Banking regulation and financial fragility
Business ethics: banking activity and its impact upon the natural environment
Innovation in the global capital markets
Islamic finance and financial instruments
Public sector administration and reform including public private partnerships, private finance initiatives, supreme audit institutions (SAI's).

Recent Publications

Norton, S. D. 1999. Liberalisation in the international telecommunications market: the general agreement on trade in services. Communications Law, Vol. 4 No 6 pp 223-229.

Norton S. D. Auditor Liability since Caparo: Legal Formalism versus Economic Realism. The Commercial Liability Law Review ( June) 2000, pp. 73-107.

Solomon, J.F., Solomon A, S.D. Norton. 2002. Socially responsible investment in the UK; drivers and current issues. Journal of General Management, Vol 27 No 3 Spring pp1-13.

Solomon J. F. , Lin, S. Norton S.D., and A. Solomon (2003) The evolving function of the Board of Directors in Taiwanese companies: Corporate Governance; An International Review. Vol 11, No. pp235-248.

Solomon J. F. , Solomon A. Joseph N.L. and S.D. Norton (2002). Who would be a trustee? The growth of SRI in UK pension funds. New Academy Review Vol 1 No. 4, Winter pp98-104.

Solomon, J. F., Solomon, A., Norton, S. D. and N. L. Joseph (2000) "A Conceptual Framework for Corporate Risk Disclosure Emerging from the Agenda for Corporate Governance Reform". British Accounting Review, Vol.32, No.4, December, pp.447-478.

Norton, S. D. and J. F. Solomon (2000) "Future Policy Directions for Doi Moi in Vietnam", Global Economic Review, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 117-133.

Solomon, J. F., Solomon, A., Joseph, N. L. and S. D. Norton (2000) "Institutional Investors' Views on Corporate Governance Reform: Policy Recommendations for the 21st Century", Corporate Governance: An International Review, Vol.8, No.3, July, pp. 217-226.

Norton, S.D. Securitisation in the Extractive Industries: Stakeholder Sensitivities, Environmental Protection and the Cost of Capital. Greener Management International 53 (Spring 2007), pp. 57-71.

Norton, S.D. Lost in translation: the inappropriateness of occidental new public management to reform of the public sector bureaucracy in Japan, International Journal of Public Sector Management 20 (7) (2007) pp. 674-693.( Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2008).

Norton, S.D. The natural environment as a salient stakeholder: non-anthropocentrism, ecosystem stability, and the financial markets, Business Ethics: A European Review 16(4) (October 2007) pp. 387-402.

Norton, S.D. and Blanco, L., Public-Private Partnerships: a Comparative Study of New Public Management and Stakeholder Participation in the United Kingdom and Spain. International Journal of Public Policy (accepted November 2007, to be published 2008).

Norton, S.D. and Smith, M., Contrast and Foundation of the Public Oversight Roles of the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the U.K. National Audit Office. Public Administration Review (accepted June 2008 for publication in September/October 2008).

Sadah, Muhammad Abu. Norton S. D. 2008. The Application of Uncitral Model Law Principles in the Middle East Region. Arab Law Quarterly, Vol 22 No. 3. pp 219-269.

A comparative analysis of US policy initiatives and their implications in a credit crisis: The Depression Era of the 1920’s in a twenty-first century context. Norton, S.D. Journal of Financial Services Marketing, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2010, pp. 328-345.

The perceived need for and impediments to achieving accounting transparency in developing countries: a field investigation on Bangladesh’. Nurunnabi, M., Karim, A.K.M.W., Norton, S.D. International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting, due summer 2010.

Chapter in Creative Accounting, edited by Michael Jones for Wiley and Sons Ltd; ‘Bank failures and accounting during the financial crisis of 2008-2009’, Norton, S.D.

Textbook for the professional body, the Chartered Institute of Shipbrokers, Shipping Finance, Norton, S.D. Witherbys Publishing.

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