Corporat Corporate Governance

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INTRODUCTION TO CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
While the governance issue has existed as long as social institutions have existed, the term ‘corporate governance’ was coined not more than two decades ago. The corporate governance has become an important policy issue in the developed countries since the early 1990s, following the unsatisfactory performance of corporations in the US and UK, leaving company shareholders dissatisfied. In the developing economies like India, China and the erstwhile countries of the Soviet bloc, corporate governance became part of the development agenda around the late 1990s, as several of these countries became increasingly globalized and progressively transited towards more market-oriented economies. The importance of corporate governance was further spurred by a string of high profile corporate failures around the globe, even in countries with relatively more mature governance systems like the US and the UK, and by economy-wide failures of corporations in several countries during the East-Asian crisis of the late 1990s. …show more content…

Underlying the diversity in the conceptualization of corporate governance are different theoretical perspectives on the governance problems, namely, the objectives of governance, the nature of the governance problems, the mechanism to mitigate the governance problems and the institutional framework that is necessary to enhance the effectiveness of the governance

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