Governança corporativa : identificação dos principais fatores que inibem a adesão das companhias abertas ao novo mercado da BOVESPA, sob o enfoque de custos

Abstract

The development of the domestic and international capital markets has taken investors to increasingly demand the companies to adopt good corporate governance practices, while there has been a substantial increase in costs to comply with such practices. The public offerings of stocks that took place in 2004 at the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange - BOVESPA were driven to the New Market and Differentiated Practices of Corporate Governance - Levels I and II, aiming at reaching better prices for its securities. However, the number of companies listed in these special segments is still relatively low in comparison with all public companies registered at BOVESPA. The present study intends to identify which factors inhibit more companies to adhere to BOVESPA's New Market. Taking into consideration the implicit and explicit costs of corporate governance activities, the study looked for identifying whether the implicit costs have the most influence on the management's decision to adhere or not to the BOVESPA's New Market. The accomplished study also verified that the companies do not segregate from the administrative costs those correspondents to corporate governance activities. This situation arises from the difficulties of identifying amid the corporate activities, which are the ones that correspond to those activities and in with form they should be accrued. The study aims to contribute to the discussion and identification of the factors and the costs (both implicit and explicit) involved in corporate governance activity, so that more companies adopt good governance practices and can raise funds through stock offerings listing their securities in the BOVESPA's New Market and Differentiated Practices of Governance Corporative - Levels I and II.

The development of the domestic and international capital markets has taken investors to increasingly demand the companies to adopt good corporate governance practices, while there has been a substantial increase in costs to comply with such practices. The public offerings of stocks that took place in 2004 at the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange - BOVESPA were driven to the New Market and Differentiated Practices of Corporate Governance - Levels I and II, aiming at reaching better prices for its securities. However, the number of companies listed in these special segments is still relatively low in comparison with all public companies registered at BOVESPA. The present study intends to identify which factors inhibit more companies to adhere to BOVESPA's New Market. Taking into consideration the implicit and explicit costs of corporate governance activities, the study looked for identifying whether the implicit costs have the most influence on the management's decision to adhere or not to the BOVESPA's New Market. The accomplished study also verified that the companies do not segregate from the administrative costs those correspondents to corporate governance activities. This situation arises from the difficulties of identifying amid the corporate activities, which are the ones that correspond to those activities and in with form they should be accrued. The study aims to contribute to the discussion and identification of the factors and the costs (both implicit and explicit) involved in corporate governance activity, so that more companies adopt good governance practices and can raise funds through stock offerings listing their securities in the BOVESPA's New Market and Differentiated Practices of Governance Corporative - Levels I and II.