Case Study ---Baosteel Corporate Goverance

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Case Study -­‐-­‐-­‐Baosteel Corporate Goverance Outside Director Outside director is any member of a company’s board of directors who is not an employee or stakeholder in the company. Corporate governance standard require public companies to have a certain number or percentage of outside directors on their boards as they are more likely to provide unbiased opinions. Outside directors are advantageous to the company because they have very little conflict of interest and may see the big picture differently than insiders. Outside Directors Installed at Baosteel Before October 17, 2005, their names are hardly known to ordinary Chinese. Victor Fund, former chairma of Li&Fung, and Stephen Lee, former chairman of the SPA, came into the press limelight when they were made outside directors of Baosteel, the largest iron and steel company in China and one of the largest in the world. Baosteel’s board now consists of five outside directors, including Fung and Lee, and four inside directors. It is China’s first of its kind with a foreign citizen serving as a member. Positivity The value

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