Ethics and Governance 2022 Research Paper

Running head: ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE
Ethics and governance
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ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE
Executive summary:
The paper is developed to conduct research on the governance structure and ethical outlook
of one of the companies listed on ASX. The chosen company for the purpose of analysis is
Service streams limited. There are four requirements that has been addressed in the paper and
this comprised of summarizing the company, reviewing its corporate governance,
determining the board orientation and interpreting the communications made by the company
using legitimacy theory.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................3
Introduce and summarize the company:....................................................................................3
Corporate governance summary................................................................................................3
Evaluating the board of director’s composition:........................................................................3
Outlining the information from Chairman and the CEO report:................................................3
Remuneration report summary:..................................................................................................3
Determining the orientation of board:........................................................................................3
Interpretation of communication of service streams using Legitimacy theory:.........................4
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................4
Reference list:.............................................................................................................................4

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Introduction:
The report is developed with the objective of conducting research on the corporate
governance of the chosen company that is Service streams limited. Evaluation of the
company has been done in terms of its recent history and summarizing its overall information
from the published financial report. Some of the theories that have been discussed include
legitimacy theory, stakeholder theory and shareholder theory. Board orientation has been
discussed in accordance with all the applicable theories. From the analysis, it has been
observed that the board orientation of Service stream shareholder-agency theory and
stakeholder theory of managerial branch.
Introduce and summarize the company:
Service stream holdings private limited is the leading provider of essential network
services of Australia. They are engaged in the development of wide range of services of
network for the operation and development of the energy, water network and communication.
There are three segments in which the company carries out its operation and this includes
network construction, fixed communication and energy and water. The company offer
designs, subsidiaries, installations, maintenance and services for optical, broadband, high
speed data, home, telephony and copper access networks as well as the drafting, planning and
production associated field assessment testing and land access compliance
(servicestream.com.au 2019). Therefore, some of the essential network services offered by
the company comprised of install, service, design, access, build and install.
Operation of service streams is nationwide as it serves more than forty locations and
have active contractors up to 3500 and maintains a workforce of around 1800. Service stream