The report provides an account of the Emerging Markets Corporate Governance Research Network (EMCGN) and its first 10 years of activities. The paper describes the history of the EMCGN and its objectives—to stimulate research focused on corporate governance in emerging markets as well as transition and developing countries - its structure, which is a joint undertaking of corporate governance research centers and internationally recognized scholars with IFC Corporate Governance acting as its catalyst; and its modalities: organizing workshops, holding biannual conferences, and disseminating and communicating research.

As a summary, main purpose of the Emerging Markets Corporate Governance Network (EMCGN)’s is to stimulate research focused on corporate governance in emerging markets as well as transition and developing countries. The Network aims to raise the academic quality of corporate governance related research through fostering international exchanges among scholars in all regions, providing young and promising scholars with exposures to international experts, and exploring the common aspects of corporate governance issues across countries.

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