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Corporate Governance Resources

Last updated July 2026.

A curated directory for shareholders, directors, employees, pension trustees, researchers, and advocates. We favor primary sources, public-interest research, and sites with substantial continuing corporate-governance content. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. Some advocacy organizations approach governance from sharply different perspectives, and many commercial databases require a subscription. Please report broken links or recommend additions to James McRitchie.

Contents

• CorpGov.net resources
• U.S. filings, rules, and corporate law
• Shareholder proposals and advocacy
• Proxy voting, voting choice, and transparency
• Proxy advisors, voting research, and governance analytics
• Research, news, blogs, and podcasts
• Academic and policy centers
• Governance organizations, principles, and stewardship codes
• Boards, directors, and corporate secretaries
• Executive compensation and human capital
• Accounting, audit, controls, ethics, and risk
• Employee ownership and workplace democracy
• Corporate political spending, lobbying, and accountability
• Sustainability, disclosure, and system-level investing
• Pensions, asset owners, and institutional stewardship
• International and regional shareholder organizations
• Investor communications, proxy solicitation, and engagement advisers
• Whistleblowers and enforcement
• Additional data and benchmarking

CorpGov.net resources

• CorpGov.net — News, analysis, campaigns, and commentary on shareholder rights and corporate accountability.
• Shareowner Action Handbook — Practical guidance for shareholders seeking to participate in corporate governance.
• Corporate Governance Defined — Definitions and perspectives on the meaning and purpose of corporate governance.
• CorpGov Library — Archived papers, books, essays, and historical governance resources.
• Investor Rights Forum — Coalition-building and discussion focused on shareholder rights and advocacy.

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U.S. filings, rules, and corporate law

• SEC Search Filings — Company, fund, and other EDGAR filing searches.
• EDGAR Full-Text Search — Search the full text of electronic SEC filings since 2001.
• SEC Shareholder Proposals Hub — Current Rule 14a-8 guidance, correspondence, staff materials, and prior seasons.
• Rule 14a-8 — Shareholder Proposals — Current regulatory text in an accessible format.
• Schedule 14A — Information required in proxy statements.
• SEC Mutual Fund Proxy Voting Records — Search Form N-PX reports filed by mutual funds and other registered investment companies.
• SEC Investor Advisory Committee — Meetings, recommendations, and materials reflecting investor perspectives.
• SEC EDGAR Data and APIs — Public access to company submissions and XBRL data through SEC APIs.
• Delaware General Corporation Law — Official text of the Delaware General Corporation Law.
• Delaware Court Opinions — Opinions from the Delaware Supreme Court, Court of Chancery, and other state courts.
• Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse — Filings, settlements, and research concerning securities class actions.
• Federal Trade Commission — Antitrust — Federal antitrust statutes, guidance, and enforcement materials.
• U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division — Federal antitrust enforcement, policy, cases, and speeches.

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Shareholder proposals and advocacy

• As You Sow Resolution Tracker — Current shareholder proposals and company engagements represented by As You Sow.
• Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility — Resolutions — Shareholder resolutions, voting guides, exempt solicitations, and advocacy resources.
• Proxy Preview — Free annual tracking and analysis of environmental, social, political-spending, and governance proposals.
• Ceres Shareholder Proposal Database — Climate, water, biodiversity, and related shareholder proposals and director votes.
• PRI Resolution Database — Global shareholder resolutions, management proposals, voting intentions, and outcomes.
• The Shareholder Commons — Portfolios on the Ballot — Proxy voting guidance centered on system-level risks affecting diversified investors.
• AFL-CIO Shareholder Advocacy — Labor-oriented shareholder advocacy and corporate accountability resources.
• ShareAction — Shareholder Resolutions — Global investor campaigns, voting principles, and resolutions.
• Majority Action — Director-accountability, proxy-voting, and asset-manager stewardship research.
• Free Enterprise Project — Conservative shareholder proposals and corporate-engagement campaigns.
• Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility — Shareholder research, engagement, and resolutions focused primarily on Australian-listed companies.
• SHARE Canada — Responsible-investment and shareholder-engagement services for Canadian asset owners.

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Proxy voting, voting choice, and transparency

• ProxyVote — Broadridge platform for reviewing and voting proxy ballots.
• Broadridge Shareholder Education — Plain-language information about shareholder meetings, ballots, and voting.
• CalPERS Proxy Voting — Published voting decisions, principles, and governance materials.
• Norges Bank Investment Management Voting — Voting intentions, records, and global voting guidelines.
• BlackRock Voting Choice — Voting-choice information for eligible institutional and fund investors.
• Vanguard Proxy Voting and Investor Choice — Voting policies, records, and information about investor-choice programs.
• iconik — Custom proxy voting and voting-choice technology for asset managers and investors.
• Tumelo ProxySphere — Pass-through voting and stewardship technology for pooled funds.
• Broadridge Pass-Through Voting — Infrastructure and information concerning pass-through voting programs.
• Glass Lewis Pass-Through Voting — Policy and implementation options for institutional voting-choice programs.
• Proxymity — Digital proxy-voting and shareholder-communications infrastructure.

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Proxy advisors, voting research, and governance analytics

• Institutional Shareholder Services — Proxy research, voting services, governance data, and policy guidelines. Commercial.
• Glass Lewis — Proxy research, voting services, policy guidelines, and governance insights. Commercial.
• Egan-Jones Proxy Services — Proxy research and voting recommendations. Commercial.
• Minerva Analytics — Independent proxy voting, stewardship support, governance data, and reporting. Formerly Manifest. Commercial.
• Pensions & Investment Research Consultants — UK-based proxy research, voting, and stewardship services. Commercial.
• Proxinvest — European proxy research and voting advice. Commercial.
• Diligent Market Intelligence — Shareholder activism, proxy voting, compensation, and governance data; incorporates Insightia. Commercial.
• Proxy Insight — Institutional voting records and policy analytics. Commercial.
• ISS Voting Analytics — Institutional voting, meeting results, and voting-pattern data. Commercial.
• Equilar — Executive compensation, board, and governance benchmarking. Commercial.

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Research, news, blogs, and podcasts

• Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance — Widely read academic and practitioner commentary on governance, securities law, and proxy issues.
• Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog — Corporate, securities, financial-regulation, and governance analysis.
• Oxford Business Law Blog — International scholarship and commentary on business law and corporate governance.
• Business Law Prof Blog — Academic commentary on corporate, securities, and business law.
• Cooley PubCo — Public-company reporting, SEC, governance, and proxy-season developments.
• TheCorporateCounsel.net — Public-company, securities-law, and governance analysis. Some content requires a subscription.
• Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog — Developments in Delaware corporate and commercial law.
• Directors & Boards — Boardroom news, interviews, and governance commentary.
• Corporate Board Member — Board leadership, risk, strategy, and governance content.
• Responsible Investor — Global responsible-investment and stewardship news. Some content requires a subscription.
• Governance Intelligence — Corporate-secretary, governance, and shareholder-engagement news.
• CII — The Voice of Corporate Governance — Council of Institutional Investors podcast and governance discussions.
• Boardroom Governance with Evan Epstein — Interviews and discussions concerning boards, founders, investors, and governance.
• Capitalisn’t — Podcast on capitalism, markets, corporate power, and public policy.

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Academic and policy centers

• Harvard Program on Corporate Governance — Research and policy work on public-company governance and investor protection.
• Columbia Center on Corporate Governance — Conferences and research on corporate law, securities regulation, and shareholder rights.
• Ira M. Millstein Center — Research and convenings involving boards, investors, lawyers, and policymakers.
• Stanford Rock Center for Corporate Governance — Cross-disciplinary governance research and education.
• Stanford Corporate Governance Research Initiative — Empirical research and educational materials on boards and governance.
• John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance — Research and programs from the University of Delaware.
• Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance — Corporate-law, governance, and law-reform research and programming.
• European Corporate Governance Institute — Global working papers, governance codes, research, and events.
• Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity — Programs concerning corporate responsibility, ethics, accountability, and governance.
• Tulane Corporate Governance Research Guide — Sources and search strategies for governance, directors, ownership, and compensation data.

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Governance organizations, principles, and stewardship codes

• Council of Institutional Investors — U.S. asset-owner association, governance policies, advocacy, and educational resources.
• CII Corporate Governance Policies — Detailed investor-oriented governance and voting policies.
• International Corporate Governance Network — Global investor-led governance and stewardship principles, policy, and education.
• OECD Corporate Governance — G20/OECD Principles and related corporate-governance policy work.
• Principles for Responsible Investment — Investor network, stewardship resources, reporting, and collaboration tools.
• International Organization of Securities Commissions — Global securities-regulatory standards and policy materials.
• Asian Corporate Governance Association — Investor-led research and advocacy on governance across Asia-Pacific markets.
• Canadian Coalition for Good Governance — Governance and stewardship guidance from Canadian institutional investors.
• Australian Council of Superannuation Investors — Governance, stewardship, and sustainability research for Australian asset owners.
• Eumedion — Dutch institutional-investor forum on governance and sustainability.
• UK Stewardship Code 2026 — Current UK stewardship principles and reporting framework.
• Japan Stewardship Code — Japan Financial Services Agency materials on institutional-investor stewardship.
• CFA Institute — Stewardship — Research and policy concerning investor stewardship and fiduciary practice.

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Boards, directors, and corporate secretaries

• National Association of Corporate Directors — Director education, certification, governance research, and peer networks.
• Society for Corporate Governance — Professional association for corporate secretaries and governance professionals.
• The Chartered Governance Institute — Governance qualifications, standards, guidance, and professional development.
• BoardSource — Governance resources focused on nonprofit boards.
• Women Corporate Directors — Global community and governance resources for women serving on corporate boards.
• Latino Corporate Directors Association — Board leadership, research, and networking focused on Latino directors and executives.
• Institute of Corporate Directors — Canada — Canadian director education and governance resources.
• Australian Institute of Company Directors — Director education, governance policy, and board resources.
• Institute of Directors — UK — Director education, policy, and governance resources.
• Independent Directors Council — Education and policy resources for independent mutual-fund directors.

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Executive compensation and human capital

• AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch — CEO pay data and worker-pay comparisons.
• Economic Policy Institute — CEO Pay — Research on executive compensation and pay inequality.
• Equilar — Executive compensation, board composition, and governance data. Commercial.
• Pearl Meyer — Executive compensation and board-governance research and consulting.
• Compensation Advisory Partners — Executive and director compensation research and advisory materials.
• Semler Brossy — Research and commentary on executive pay, incentives, and governance.
• Human Capital Management Coalition — Investor resources on human-capital disclosure and oversight.
• JUST Capital Rankings — Company benchmarking on workers, communities, customers, shareholders, and environmental performance.

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Accounting, audit, controls, ethics, and risk

• Public Company Accounting Oversight Board — Audit standards, inspections, enforcement, and investor resources.
• Financial Accounting Standards Board — U.S. financial-accounting standards and projects.
• IFRS Foundation — International accounting and sustainability disclosure standards.
• International Federation of Accountants — International accountancy, audit, ethics, and public-interest resources.
• AICPA & CIMA — Accounting, audit, ethics, and professional standards.
• Institute of Internal Auditors — Internal-audit standards, research, and education.
• Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission — Internal-control and enterprise-risk-management frameworks.
• Center for Audit Quality — Public-company audit research, tools, and policy.
• Audit Analytics — Audit, accounting, disclosure, and risk data. Commercial.
• Open Compliance & Ethics Group — Governance, risk, compliance, ethics, and assurance frameworks.
• Risk and Insurance Management Society — Enterprise-risk-management research and professional resources.
• ISO 37000 — Governance of Organizations — International governance standard for organizations.

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Employee ownership and workplace democracy

• National Center for Employee Ownership — Research, education, technical resources, and news on ESOPs and other forms of employee ownership.
• NCEO — Who’s Who in Employee Ownership — Current directory of organizations working in employee ownership.
• Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing — Academic research, data, and education on employee ownership and shared capitalism.
• Curriculum Library for Employee Ownership — Teaching materials, case studies, and links to employee-ownership centers.
• Beyster Institute — Employee-ownership education, consulting, and research at UC San Diego.
• The ESOP Association — Membership, education, advocacy, and technical resources for ESOP companies and advisers.
• Employee Ownership Foundation — Research and education supporting employee ownership.
• Employee Ownership Expansion Network — National network supporting state employee-ownership centers.
• Ownership Works — Nonprofit partnerships promoting broad-based employee ownership.
• Project Equity — Employee-ownership transitions, research, and policy resources.
• Democracy at Work Institute — Worker-cooperative development, research, and technical assistance.
• ICA Group — Worker ownership, cooperative development, and business-conversion services.
• U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives — National membership and advocacy organization for worker cooperatives.
• Aspen Institute — Employee Ownership — Research and policy work on employee ownership and job quality.
• European Federation of Employee Share Ownership — European employee-ownership statistics, policy, and advocacy.
• Employee Ownership Association — UK — Resources and advocacy for employee-owned businesses in the United Kingdom.
• California Employee Ownership Hub — California information and resources for employee-ownership transitions.

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Corporate political spending, lobbying, and accountability

• Center for Political Accountability — Corporate political-spending disclosure, accountability, and shareholder engagement.
• CPA-Zicklin Index — Annual benchmarking of corporate political disclosure and oversight.
• Track Your Company — Searchable corporate political-spending and accountability information.
• OpenSecrets — Campaign-finance, lobbying, and outside-spending data.
• Federal Election Commission Data — Official federal campaign-finance records.
• Lobbying Disclosure Act Database — Official federal lobbying registrations and reports.
• InfluenceMap — Research on corporate climate-policy engagement and lobbying.
• Public Citizen — Democracy and Corporate Power — Research and advocacy concerning lobbying, political spending, and corporate influence.
• Corporate Accountability — Campaigns and research addressing corporate power and public-interest harms.
• Transparency International — Global anti-corruption research, standards, and advocacy.
• National Legal and Policy Center — Conservative-oriented corporate-integrity investigations and shareholder advocacy.

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Sustainability, disclosure, and system-level investing

• Principles for Responsible Investment — Responsible-investment principles, reporting, research, and collaboration.
• Ceres — Investor and company networks focused on climate, water, and sustainable capital markets.
• Climate Action 100+ — Investor-led engagement with major greenhouse-gas emitters.
• World Benchmarking Alliance — Free corporate benchmarks covering climate, nature, human rights, food, digital inclusion, and more.
• Global Reporting Initiative — Widely used sustainability-reporting standards.
• IFRS Sustainability Standards — International Sustainability Standards Board materials and disclosure standards.
• CDP — Corporate environmental disclosure and data.
• The Shareholder Commons — System-level stewardship and diversified-shareholder advocacy.
• The Predistribution Initiative — Research and investor engagement concerning inequality, systemic risk, and investment structures.
• FCLTGlobal — Research and tools promoting long-term investment and corporate decision-making.
• UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights — United Nations framework for corporate responsibility and human-rights due diligence.
• OECD Responsible Business Conduct — Guidelines and due-diligence resources for multinational enterprises.
• As You Sow — Invest Your Values — Free tools examining mutual-fund exposure to environmental and social issues.

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Pensions, asset owners, and institutional stewardship

• CalPERS — Investment, governance, engagement, and proxy-voting resources.
• CalSTRS Corporate Governance — Corporate-governance principles, engagement, and voting information.
• New York State Common Retirement Fund — Investment, stewardship, and corporate-governance resources.
• Florida State Board of Administration — Investment reports, governance policies, and proxy-voting information.
• State of Wisconsin Investment Board — Public-pension investment and stewardship information.
• Employees Retirement System of Texas — Texas public retirement plan information and investment reporting.
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan — Investment, stewardship, and responsible-investment resources.
• Norges Bank Investment Management — Sovereign-wealth-fund stewardship, voting, expectations, and ownership reports.
• National Association of State Retirement Administrators — Public-pension data, research, and policy resources.
• National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems — Public-pension research, education, and advocacy.
• National Institute on Retirement Security — Retirement-security research and policy analysis.
• Pension Research Council — Academic research on pensions, retirement, and institutional investment.
• Committee on Workers’ Capital — Global labor network focused on responsible investment of workers’ retirement capital.
• Pensions & Investments — Institutional-investment and pension news. Some content requires a subscription.

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International and regional shareholder organizations

• Australian Shareholders’ Association — Education and advocacy for Australian retail shareholders.
• Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility — Research and shareholder advocacy in Australia and global markets.
• ShareSoc — UK individual-shareholder education and advocacy.
• UK Shareholders’ Association — Representation and education for UK individual shareholders.
• DSW — German Shareholders’ Association — German investor protection, governance, and shareholder representation.
• VEB — Dutch Investors’ Association — Dutch investor advocacy, litigation, and education.
• Securities Investors Association Singapore — Investor education, advocacy, and corporate-governance work in Singapore.
• New Zealand Shareholders’ Association — New Zealand retail-shareholder advocacy and company monitoring.
• BETTER FINANCE — European federation of investors and financial-services users.
• Follow This — Climate-focused shareholder resolutions at major oil and gas companies.

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Investor communications, proxy solicitation, and engagement advisers

• Broadridge — Proxy distribution, voting, shareholder communications, and related infrastructure. Commercial.
• Georgeson — Proxy solicitation, corporate actions, governance, and investor engagement. Commercial.
• D.F. King — Proxy solicitation, information-agent, and corporate-action services. Commercial.
• Okapi Partners — Proxy solicitation, activism, governance, and investor-response services. Commercial.
• Innisfree M&A Incorporated — Proxy solicitation and strategic shareholder advisory. Commercial.
• Alliance Advisors — Proxy solicitation, governance, and shareholder-communications services. Commercial.
• Sodali & Co — Shareholder services, proxy solicitation, governance, sustainability, and strategic communications; formerly Morrow Sodali. Commercial.
• Kingsdale Advisors — Canadian and global strategic shareholder and governance advisory. Commercial.
• Laurel Hill Advisory Group — Proxy solicitation, governance, and corporate-action services. Commercial.
• EQ Shareholder Services — Transfer-agent, meeting, proxy, and shareholder-communications services. Commercial.
• PJT Camberview — Shareholder advisory, strategic investor relations, activism, and contested-situation advice. Commercial.

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Whistleblowers and enforcement

• SEC Office of the Whistleblower — Reporting, eligibility, awards, and program information.
• CFTC Whistleblower Program — Reporting commodity-law violations and information about awards and protections.
• OSHA Whistleblower Protection Program — Information on federal whistleblower statutes administered by OSHA.
• National Whistleblower Center — Education, advocacy, and legal resources for whistleblowers.
• Government Accountability Project — Whistleblower advocacy, legal support, and policy work.
• Taxpayers Against Fraud — False Claims Act, whistleblower, and government-fraud resources.
• Phillips & Cohen — Whistleblower law firm and case resources.
• SEC Enforcement and Litigation — Enforcement actions, litigation releases, administrative proceedings, and statistics.
• PCAOB Enforcement — Audit-related disciplinary orders and enforcement information.

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Additional data and benchmarking

• CPA-Zicklin Index — Free corporate political-disclosure and accountability scores.
• World Benchmarking Alliance — Free global corporate sustainability and systems-transformation benchmarks.
• JUST Capital Rankings — Free stakeholder-performance rankings for large U.S. companies.
• Proxy Monitor — Shareholder-proposal database and analysis from a market-oriented perspective.
• Diligent Market Intelligence — Governance, activism, voting, and compensation data. Subscription.
• Proxy Insight — Institutional proxy-voting records and analytics. Subscription.
• Audit Analytics — Audit, accounting, disclosure, and risk datasets. Subscription.
• MSCI ESG Research — ESG ratings, climate data, and governance research. Commercial.
• Morningstar Sustainalytics — ESG risk ratings, stewardship, and controversy research. Commercial.
• FactSet — Ownership, governance, activism, compensation, and market data, including SharkRepellent. Commercial.

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Corrections and additions

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