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Corporate Governance: Definition & Glossaries

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What is Corporate Governance?

“Corporate governance involves a set of relationships between a company’s management, its board, its shareholders and other stakeholders. Corporate governance also provides the structure through which the objectives of the company are set, and the means of obtaining those objectives and monitoring performance are determined.

Good corporate governance should provide proper incentives for the board and management to pursue objectives that are in the interests of the company and shareholders and should facilitate effective monitoring, thereby encouraging firms to use resources more efficiently.”

(G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance - 2015)

(OECD Principles of Corporate Governance - 2004)

 

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (Springer)

Encyclopedia of Sustainability (Gale)

Encycogov: Encyclopedia of Corporate Governance 

  • An interactive encyclopedia about corporate governance and financial issues produced by H. Mathiesen mainly during his PhD program.