What is corporate governance

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The following is from an article in USA Today: In what some call a worldwide corporate governance movement, shareholders are pushing for stronger corporate-governance laws, teaming with investors from different countries and negotiating behind the scenes with businesses. What is corporate governance? Why would shareholders push for stronger corporate governance laws? Source: Edward Iwata, "Corporate Governance Gets More Transparent Worldwide," USA Today, February 17, 2008.

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