Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether corporate governance changes along the corporate life-cycle. Design/methodology/approach – In a sample of 205 firms from 21 emerging market countries and using a life-cycle proxy from the dividends literature, the authors use a...

Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to examine whether corporate governance changes along the corporate life-cycle. Design/methodology/approach -In a sample of 205 firms from 21 emerging market countries and using a life-cycle proxy from the dividends literature, the authors use a...