Title: Domination of Family Owned Corporations and Problems of Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets
Abstract: Good corporate governance contributes to sustainable economic development by enhancing the performance of the companies and increasing their access to outside capital. The experiences of the developed countries reveal that good corporate governance can reduce risk, stimulate performance, improve access to capital markets, enhance the marketability of goods and services, improve leadership, increase the value of the corporations, enable the corporations to acquire external finances easily at a lower cost. The dispersed ownership and separation between ownership and control resulted corporate governance problems including agency cost in developed and emerging economies. The good corporate governance practices and concentration of share ownership in the baskets of a group of institutions gave them monitoring responsibility to the corporate issues in the western financial markets. However, the corporate governance problems including managerial opportunism still exist in developing economies, where family owned enterprises control their stock markets. The developing and emerging economies are constantly confronted with issues such as the lack of property rights, the abuse of minority shareholders and contract violations. For a strong impact of corporate governance measures on the economy, a set of democratic norms, market institutions and effective legal system should be set up. Over the past decade reforms in corporate governance driven by events such as the 1997 Asian financial crisis, major corporate scandals (such as Enron and WorldCom) and the globalization of capital markets have become an important global policy agenda. Economic development requires a modern, transparent corporate governance infrastructure based on efficient capital markets. This paper evaluates the possible monitoring role of company’s creditors and auditors, arguing that a well-developed corporate governance structure, including accounting infrastructure and creditors vigilance, would promote long-term corporate stability and economic prosperity.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-02-23
Language: en
Type: article
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