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Good corporate governance is a key component in enhancing the economic competence of a firm and it additionally serves to ensure that companies consider the interests of a broader range of communities, as well as society within which they operate. [N. R Narayana Murthy Committee, 2003]. This paper intends to study Shareholders’ Expectations on Corporate Governance. The data used for this purpose is primary and was collected from a sample of 495 respondents through a well-structured questionnaire. The main statistical techniques used for subjecting the primary data include frequency distribution, mean, SD, t test, f test and Factor Analysis. Major findings of the study revealed that the sampled respondents consider five factors, namely, ‘shareholders rights’, ‘timeliness and adequacy of disclosure’, ‘trustworthiness of financial intermediaries’, ‘fairness and independence of the legal system’ and ‘treatment of foreign investors as equal to local investors’, quite satisfactory across all independent variables.
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