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In this review article, the primary subject is to articulate a conceptual framework and historical perspective of Corporate Governance. This paper started with evolution of Corporate Governance from ancient era, where all state property came under the purview of King and then covered all modern aspects related to corporate governance. This paper Started from the global evolution and moved to elaboration of Indian evolution of corporate governance. After discussing various corporate governance models this paper focused on initiatives taken by government and industry in India in the process of corporate governance reforms. In this article author made a small attempt to organise these historical events into a chronological order.

Keywords

Corporate Governance; Business House Model; Anglo American Model; Managing Agency Model

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