{"title":"What is Corporate Governance","authors":"N. Brennan","doi":"10.4135/9781483376493.n78","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The word governance comes from a Latin word – gubernare – which means to steer. Cicero has written ‘he that governs sits quietly at the stern and scarce is seen to stir’. Thus my colleague, Dr Collette Kirwan, has conceptualised the board as being the navigator of the company.","PeriodicalId":166342,"journal":{"name":"Open Access publications","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"101","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Open Access publications","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483376493.n78","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The word governance comes from a Latin word – gubernare – which means to steer. Cicero has written ‘he that governs sits quietly at the stern and scarce is seen to stir’. Thus my colleague, Dr Collette Kirwan, has conceptualised the board as being the navigator of the company.