Corporate governance: board structure, information technology and CSR reporting
Abstract:
Good corporate governance practices are considered vital for attracting investment capital, improving the
performance of companies and reducing risk for investors. This paper provides some general overviews
on board structure, information technology (IT) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting. This
paper also discusses the various theories related to corporate governance in order to understand the
corporate phenomena. This is important to understand each of the theory concept and its implications.
These theories include agency theory, stewardship theory, stakeholder theory, resource dependency
theory and legitimacy theory. Certainly, board structure, IT and CSR have significant bearing on a firm’s
state of corporate governance and performance.