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2022•Proceedings of Business and Economic StudiesOpen access

A Study of the Role of the Board of Directors in Corporate Governance Based on UK Listed Companies

Xinyan Jiang

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Companies are directed and controlled by corporate governance. It acts on the company internally and externally. The board of directors is responsible for the governance of the company; that is to say, the board of directors is the brain of the company, while corporate governance is the blood distributed throughout the company, which not only supplies blood to the whole, but also reflects the situation. Therefore, with regard to the role of the board of directors in corporate governance, this paper objectively analyzes the importance of the board of directors in corporate governance from theory to practice and from the internal composition of the board of directors to the impact of the board’s actions on the enterprise as a whole based on United Kingdom (UK) listed companies.

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Companies are directed and controlled by corporate governance. It acts on the company internally and externally. The board of directors is responsible for the governance of the company; that is to say, the board of directors is the brain of the company, while corporate governance is the blood distributed throughout the company, which not only supplies blood to the whole, but also reflects the situation. Therefore, with regard to the role of the board of directors in corporate governance, this paper objectively analyzes the importance of the board of directors in corporate governance from theory to practice and from the internal composition of the board of directors to the impact of the board’s actions on the enterprise as a whole based on United Kingdom (UK) listed companies.

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Companies are directed and controlled by corporate governance. It acts on the company internally and externally. The board of directors is responsible for the governance of the company; that is to say, the board of directors is the brain of the company, while corporate governance is the blood distributed throughout the company, which not only supplies blood to the whole, but also reflects the situation. Therefore, with regard to the role of the board of directors in corporate governance, this paper objectively analyzes the importance of the board of directors in corporate governance from theory to practice and from the internal composition of the board of directors to the impact of the board’s actions on the enterprise as a whole based on United Kingdom (UK) listed companies.

Key concepts: Corporate governance, Accounting, Business, Corporate law, On board, Finance, Engineering, Aerospace engineering

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