The Role of Corporate Governance in Stakeholder Management in Islamic Banking

Corporate governance is aligning interests between managers and shareholders and reducing information asymmetry. Accordingly, four principles including fairness, transparency, accountability, and responsibility are representing corporate governance based on shareholder and protecting shareholder interests. Recently and based on Islamic research, the aim of corporate governance is respecting the rights of all stakeholders and taking care of maintaining equilibrium between shareholders and other stakeholders. According to the fact that Iranian banks operate on the basis of Islamic law, the level of establishment of corporate governance based on shareholders or stakeholders was considered in this paper. We use the questionnaire method and ANOVA test for analyzing the level of establishment of corporate governance based on shareholders or stakeholders in state banks, private banks and financial and credit institutions in Iran. The questionnaire in this paper was designed by studying the literature and the criteria and sub-criteria for model development in accordance with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The results show that private banks are in a better situation than state and financial and credit institutions in corporate governance. In other words, private banks implement corporate governance at stakeholder level while state banks and financial and credit institutions are at the shareholder level.