Oecd Corporate Governance Factbook 2019

This 2019 edition of the OECD Corporate Governance Factbook provides a unique source for understanding how the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance (the G20/OECD Principles) are implemented around the world. By providing comparative information across 49 jurisdictions including all OECD, G20 and Financial Stability Board members, the Factbook supports informed policymaking based on up-to-date information on the variety of ways in which different countries throughout the world translate the G20/OECD Principles’ recommendations into their own legal and regulatory frameworks.

The OECD Corporate Governance Factbook provides easily accessible and up-to-date information on the institutional, legal and regulatory frameworks for corporate governance across 49 jurisdictions worldwide. Issued every two years, the Factbook complements the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and serves as a useful tool to track how the Principles are being implemented.

This 2021 edition of the OECD Corporate Governance Factbook offers a comprehensive account of how the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance are implemented around the world. With comparative information across 50 jurisdictions including all OECD, G20 and Financial Stability Board members, the Factbook supports informed policy-making by providing up-to-date information on the ways in which different countries translate the Principles’ recommendations into their national legal and regulatory frameworks.

This 2017 edition of the OECD Corporate Governance Factbook provides the first comparative report on corporate governance across all OECD, G20 and Financial Stability Board member jurisdictions. It now covers 47 different jurisdictions hosting 95% of all publicly traded corporations in the world as measured by market value.

This 2015 edition of the OECD Corporate Governance Factbook is an important complement to the recently revised Principles of Corporate Governance. The Factbook tracks how countries are actually implementing the Principles, which offer a comprehensive set of recommendations to policy makers to support sound corporate governance frameworks. Covering more than 40 jurisdictions, including OECD, G20 and Financial Stability Board members, the Corporate Governance Factbook is the most comprehensive catalogue of legal and regulatory frameworks, institutions and practices in place. It helps policy makers to understand and compare how corporate governance issues and challenges are being addressed in practice.

These principles of corporate governance, endorsed by the OECD Council at Ministerial level in 1999, provide guidelines and standards to insure inclusion, accountability and abilit to attract capital.

After the global financial crisis, the topic of corporate governance has been gaining momentum in accounting and finance literature since it may influence firm and bank management in many countries. Corporate Governance and Its Implications on Accounting and Finance provides emerging research exploring the implications of a good corporate governance system after global financial crises. Corporate governance mechanisms may include board and audit committee characteristics, ownership structure, and internal and external auditing. This book is devoted to all topics dealing with corporate governance including corporate governance characteristics, board diversity, CSR, big data governance, bitcoin governance, IT governance, and governance disclosure, and is ideally designed for executives, BODs, financial analysts, government officials, researchers, policymakers, academicians, and students.

Presents the OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises as well as a comparative overview of main practices and issues related to corporate governance of state-owned enterprises in the OECD area.