Corporate Governance Scorecard as a supervisory mechanism for municipal companies with the status of an internal entity

Abstract

The aim of the article is to present a new supervisory tool in the form of the Corporate Governance Scorecard (CGS) after its verification and modification for companies with the status of an internal entity and to determine the conditions of use. It has been assumed that the essence of CGS, as a supervisory and management mechanism, will be an important determinant of the sphere of change and development of the comprehensive concept of ownership supervision system. The result sheet described in the article has the character of a spreadsheet with visualization of trends in changes of individual indicators and comparison to standards. The implementation of the scorecard in the surveyed companies took place on January 1, 2018. The experience of several months shows that it fulfills its role not only as an instrument used by the supervisory boards or the municipal authorities. The functioning scorecard has become the subject of in-depth analyzes for the corporate governance and other stakeholders, stimulating interesting reflections on a better understanding of the specificity of managing companies with the status of an internal entity and how they operate. Currently, the implementation process and assumptions regarding the usability of the tool are monitored on an ongoing basis. The above experiments from the pilot study allow to conclude that carrying out the main research in the future on a proper sample of companies will confirm the hypothesis adopted at the beginning.