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Introduction To Corporate Governance
Introduction To Corporate Governance
corporate Governance
-Directors know far more about the corporate situation than the shareholders
- Indeed, shareholders have to rely on the directors to decide what information they should
have, over and above the minimum required by regulation and company law.
- Whenever the owner of wealth (the principal) contracts with someone else (the agent) to
manage his affairs the agency dilemma arises
-In a limited-liability company there may be many principals (shareholders) and their
agents (directors)
- Independent directors