COMPARATIVE STUDY ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

• Published in: Analele Universităţii din Oradea. Ştiinţe economice 2011-12, Vol.20 (2), p.674-680
• Main Authors: Gavrea Corina, Stegerean Roxana
• Format: Article
• Language: ger
• Subjects: corporate governance, shareholders, stakeholders, investors, corporate governance principles
• ISSN: 1222-569X; 1582-5450

Corporate governance is a key element of today’s economic reality being more and more present in many countries around the world. This paper has two main objectives. The first one is to offer more insight into the concept of corporate governance by a thorough literature review and by presenting and analyzing a framework of corporate governance. The second objective of this paper is to investigate the corporate governance situation in three developing economies (Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary). The World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development published a series of reports on corporate governance. The present study uses data from these reports in order to illustrate how these developing economies are dealing with corporate governance. Based on ROSC Reports a corporate governance score was calculated. As this score shows, there is room for improvement for all three developing economies. This study is important because it shows the differences in corporate governance among developing economies and the need to study these nations at the individual country level. Corporate governance has many benefits for developing economies. It helps developing economies to register sustainable growth rates, to increases investors’ confidence in the national economy, and to increase the ability of capital markets to mobilize savings.