A Case for Modern Governance: The High Cost of Governance Deficits

This Diligent Institute report begins to quantify the material cost of governance crises, and more importantly, the competitive advantage that comes with strong corporate governance practices.

Key findings

This report indicates the advantages companies can realize by practicing modern governance.

15%

 The percentage that the top modern governance companies (top 20%) outperformed their peers by. 

35%

Companies with corporate crises fueled by governance deficits underperformed their sectors by this percentage.

45%

The percentage by which companies underperformed their sectors two years after the incident occurred.     

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The cost of governance deficits

This Diligent Institute report begins to quantify the material cost of governance crises, and more importantly, the competitive advantage that comes with strong corporate governance practices.

The High Cost of Governance Deficits: A Case for Modern Governance report

When did these incidents occur? 

The crisis needed to have occurred relatively recently in order to speak sufficiently to current best practices, but not so recently that there might be insufficient data available. The cases included all occurred sometime between 2012 and 2017.

What types of companies were analyzed?

The review was limited to large, public companies to ensure that sufficient publicly-accessible data sources were available.

 

What happened next?

Finally, unlike many companies that experienced crises on this scale in the past several years, the companies included needed to still be in existence, and to have not gone bankrupt.

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