Nordic governance in the context of international best practice

The countries of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Denmark have all issued codes on Corporate Governance to assist companies trading on the various stock exchanges and to encourage international investment. This paper reviews these codes in relation to popular International codes in an attempt to find comparisons and differences between them. This analysis will assist governments and regulatory bodies to write one code of corporate governance, coined the International Governance Practices Regimes (IGPR) it should assist to create economies of scale for those corporations listed on the various stock exchanges who have several different codes to address.