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Antecedents and Consequences of Corporate Governance Structures
Author(s) -
Burton Peter
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
corporate governance: an international review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.866
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1467-8683
pISSN - 0964-8410
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8683.00198
Subject(s) - corporate governance , affect (linguistics) , business , empirical evidence , organizational structure , project governance , accounting , political science , sociology , management , economics , epistemology , finance , philosophy , communication
The paper uses organisation theory to seek an explanation for the relative uniformity of governance structures (as distinct from other aspects of organisational structure) in public companies in the UK and USA. It then reviews theoretical and empirical evidence of ways in which these structures affect company performance, and finds that conventional views about the benefits of independent governance structures are not strongly supported.