Conselheiro de administração e governança corporativa no Brasil

Abstract

In Brazil, the debate around the corporate governance intensified enough in the last decade, in the measure in that the relationships between shareholders and administrators and among majority and minority shareholders are changing with the companies restructuring caused by the privatizations and the new partners' entrance in the companies of the private sector, mainly foreigners and institutional investors. With the growth of the stock base of the corporations, active and efficient board members are becoming more necessary for the great Brazilian companies. Being like this the present work sought to verify in that degree the board members are following recommendations of corporate governance during the exercise of their functions. The research was accomplished with 143 board members through structuralized questionnaire developed specifically to take care of to the objectives of the study. The considered population was the board members of the IBGC, being that this cast congregates professionals of the main corporations in Brazil. The main results of the work show clearly that there is the necessity of the professional development between the current occupants of the function.