Corporate Governance & Strategy
Monday, November 22nd, 2010Corporate governance is a framework that attempts to protect the stakeholders financially invested in a company. This governance can help a company set strategies in a business environment.
Identification
1. While corporate governance is an overall framework for a company, a strategy is a specific plan to achieve short or long-term goals and objectives. Companies may use multiple strategies throughout their business operations. These strategies often help advance the company’s market share.
Features
2. Business owners and managers can create corporate governance that intertwines with business strategies. This governance can include the responsibility of each individual in the company, contracts for use in business relationships and internal controls that create an authorized structure.
Significance
3. The purpose of most companies is to make a profit through selling goods and services to consumers. A controlled environment–such as corporate governance and strategies–typically helps accomplish this task because it provides direction and limits inappropriate behavior.