The impact of reported corporate governance disclosure on the financial performance of companies listed on the JSE

Abstract

Large scale surveys of UK (CBI, Deloitte and Touche, 1996) and US (Daily and Dalton, 1994) companies a decade ago suggested that the majority of respondents felt that the heightened focus on corporate governance had no positive impact on corporate performance. The general feeling emerged that sound financial performance excuses poor governance (Pic, 1997).