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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN INDIA

This chapter deals with corporate governance in all its aspects—what it is, its constitutents, its history and evolution, and the desirable conditions for practising it—and presents a score card on corporate governance as practised in India. After reading this chapter, we will clearly understand this most important subject, the practice of which leads to ethical business.

A series of corporate scams and collapses in the late 1980s and early 1990s made the United Kingdom realize that the existing rules and regulations were inadequate to curb unlawful and unfair practices of corporations. It was with this view that a committee under the chairmanship of Sir Adrian Cadbury was appointed by the London Stock Exchange ...