Shell Corporate Governance

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This paper examines corporate governance since Shell became a fusion of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, located in the Netherlands, and the Shell Company, based in the United Kingdom. It analyzes the merits of the British and Dutch systems of the newly merged company and looks at how, despite reservations on both sides, the Dutch structure of corporate governance is best to use as the model for the Shell of the future.

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"The decision to dilute the British Shell's dual listed corporate structure is likely to arouse concern among those who feel that a decision to merge the two parents would leave the Dutch arm with excessive management control over the company's British interests. The British shareholders of Shell in particular feared that when the parent companies were merged the Netherlands system of monitoring would have a paramount influence. After the merger, the member of the board of directors and board of management are now to be appointed by both nation's shareholders, and the Dutch section of the company will be continued to be monitored by the supervisory tier of its corporate structure, including the company's transparency and disclosure change."

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