The Link Between Corporate Governance and Performance: Year 2000 Update

This report updates an earlier (1998) survey on published evidence on the link between corporate governance and corporate performance.

Document Highlights

One of the questions asked most often about current corporate governance activities – and one of the hardest to answer – is how such activities affect the level of corporate perfomance. This report updates an earlier (1998) survey on the link between corporate governance and corporate performance, focusing primarily on performance metrics.

Topics covered:

• varied definitions of ‘good governance’
• varied definitions of ‘good performance’
• corporate governance measures
• corporate performance measures

Special features:

• a five-page, updated table of selected studies on corporate governance/performance
• a sample of recent studies or reports that are not quantitative and thus do not fit into the table
• longer summaries for a few of the studies included in the table