WHAT IS ‘GOOD’ CORPORATE GOVERNANCE?

Recently the terms ‘governance’ and ‘good governance’ are being increasingly used in development literature. Bad governance is being recognized now as one of the root causes of corrupt practices in our societies. Major donors, institutional investors and international financial institutions provide their aid and loans on the condition that reforms that ensure ‘good governance’ are put in place by the recipient nations. As with nations, corporations too are expected to provide good governance to benefit all their stakeholders. At the same time, good corporates are not born, but are made by the combined efforts of all stakeholders, which include shareholders, board of directors, employees, customers, dealers, ...

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