Corporate governance in Egypt: The landscape, the research, and future directions

Egypt is an emerging economy that has in recent years been exposed to several severe economic, political, and social shocks, all within a relatively short period of time. This amplified the importance rule law, regulatory enforcement, corporate governance best practices, order restore investing public’s confidence Egyptian market. Historically, focus on had preceded these events. Building this history, today’s landscape much more robust with effective regulators, clearer streamlined governing rules, better literacy. paper identifies four main areas research Egypt: firm performance, reporting quality, responsibility, auditing. While extensive already conducted areas, provides some recommendations for further enhancing its quality. These pertain mainly development comprehensive databases, increased current market-relevant aspects governance, release proprietary data by regulators.