From the emergence and development of corporate governance, corporate governance can be divided into two levels: narrow corporate governance and broad corporate governance.
In a narrow sense, corporate governance refers to a supervision and balance mechanism between owners (mainly shareholders) and operators, that is, through an institutional arrangement, the relationship between rights and responsibilities between owners and operators is reasonably defined and distributed. The goal of corporate governance is to maximize the interests of shareholders and prevent the deviation of the interests of X and L owners. Its main feature is the internal governance of the corporate governance structure composed of shareholders' meeting, board of directors, board of supervisors and managers.
Corporate governance in a broad sense refers to coordinating the interests between the company and all stakeholders (shareholders, creditors, employees, potential investors, etc.). ) adopt a formal or informal, internal or external system to ensure the scientific and effective decision-making of the company and ultimately safeguard the interests of all aspects of the company.
From the perspective of the environment and operation mechanism of corporate governance, it can be divided into internal corporate governance and external corporate governance.