Governança corporativa nas empresas cearenses: motivações e práticas adotadas

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Maia, Sávio Roberto Rodrigues
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Governança corporativa; Empresas - Ceará; Administração de empresas
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/16397

The reconfiguration of the Brazilian economy allowed a reconstruction of capital market which, therefore, leveraged the development of corporate governance market. This current enabling environment reaches regions such as northeastern Brazil, which showed GDP growth above the national average in the last 10 years. The present study aimed to analyze the motivational factors for adopting the corporate governance and practices in the companies of Ceará, considering business characteristics. In order to achieve the main goal, specific objectives were outlined as (i) identifying the main motivational factors, (ii) investigating the corporate governance practices and its adherence to best practices advocated in the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance - IBGC (2009) code and ( iii) determine similarities and differences in the motivations and practices of corporate governance, considering their business characteristics. For this purpose, the following corporate characteristics were verified: economic sector, size, age, type of control and capital. The methodology of the research is characterized as descriptive, with predominantly qualitative data analysis, conducted through field research. The study population has included 62 GouveiaDelmiro award winning Ceará companies in the years 2007 to 2012, choosing a census in order to provide the opportunity for most participants, of which 30 had answered the questionnaire. As for motivation, it has been replied the questionnaire Aragon et al. (2009) structured with 25 questions, in Likert scale. Regarding the corporate governance practices, it was considered in the questionnaire issued by the practices of IBGC Code (2009), 28 structured questions focusing on the following aspects: ownership, board of directors, management, independent auditing, tax advice and conduct, and conflict of interest. The results have revealed that the most important motivational factors to the respondents were: professionalizing the company, perpetuating the company, improving the corporate image, ensuring greater transparency and relationship with the capital markets, improving the relationship between the components of the control block shareholders, the succession process improvement, enabling the IPO and increase fundraising to creditors and shareholders, in that order. Regarding corporate governance practices, although 83% of respondents had answered that they had implemented governance, the results have indicated that, on average, only 47% of best IBGC (2009) practices have been observed by firms, indicating that there is much room for progress on this issue. It was also possible to observe that for the main motivational factors there is a convergence of importance for large companies, with over 40 years of existence, of family control and corporate governance at an early stage or in development.