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A Guide to Corporate Governance Practices in the European UnionAs one of the most rapidly changing
 corporate governance environments in the world, Europe
 represents a microcosm of the exciting innovation happening
 in the corporate governance arena, ranging from new
 approaches to board-level corporate governance practices to
 changes in regulatory requirements at the legislative level.
 Representing a diverse mix of nations at various stages of
 economic development and market maturity, the European Union
 as an entity is demonstrating the broad value of a
 prioritized focus on corporate governance while accounting
 for individual country and company circumstances. This
 publication, a guide to Corporate Governance practices in
 the European Union, offers an overview of the changes taking
 place across the EU’s corporate governance landscape. It
 provides a focused examination of specific regulations and
 practices as well as a frank assessment of the challenges
 that remain. The value of this publication is that it
 examines the issues from all sides. It assesses the steps
 forward and steps backward, the progress made and the gaps
 that remain, presenting the sometimes widely varying
 perspectives of owners, boards, management, and other
 stakeholders to create a complete picture of the European
 corporate governance environment.
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Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets : Why It Matters to Investors—and What They Can Do About ItWhat should investors do when scholarly research on corporate governance in emerging markets does not provide conclusive evidence on which aspects of governance matter most across all the emerging markets and how they affect firm performance? A researcher and a practitioner team up to offer guidelines and recommendations that focus on board independence and business group affiliation. Every day, institutional investors in emerging markets must make practical decisions on the basis of incomplete and at times conflicting information. So, it is critically important that they make the best use of this imperfect knowledge. Moreover, investors too often enter emerging markets with misguided perceptions of the underlying realities. And worse, they may cling to a conceptual framework of governance that does not allow them even to consider the searching questions they should be asking. This Private Sector Opinion, by the authors, explicitly highlights this problem. The authors identify a serious gap in research on emerging markets between high-level cross-country studies, with their inconclusive findings on good governance indicators at the macro level, and the separate effort to establish firm-level or country-specific governance metrics, typically based on what works 'in the West.' Unfortunately, less than one percent of the research papers available on corporate governance focus on emerging markets.
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Who's Running the Company?The media guide aims at helping business
 journalists report on corporate governance and raise public
 awareness of the impact it has on businesses, shareholders,
 and the broader community of stakeholders. This report will
 help journalists develop clear and compelling stories that
 examine how a company is governed. It was produced by
 IFC's Global Corporate Governance Forum in partnership
 with the International Center for Journalists, an
 organization that advances quality journalism worldwide.
 Topics include the media's role reporting on corporate
 governance, how a board of directors functions, what
 financial reports reveal, and how to track down information
 that sheds light on a company's performance in an
 informed way.