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Necessity of corporate governance lies in the fact that it maintains the environment of mutual trust and confidence amongst all the stakeholders. The present paper aims to study theoretical framework of corporate governance. In theoretical context, several theories argue in the context of corporate governance framework. These theories are: agency theory, transaction cost economics, stewardship theory, resource dependency theory, stakeholder theory and managerial hegemony theory.
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