Dear colleague,

You should consider the positive theory of corporate governance. For instance Charreaux and his colleagues (Peter Wirtz, Karen Moris, Kirsten Burkhardt, inter alia) adressed practices in the French context.

Hope this helps...

Dear Adrien,

Thank you for the pointer on the positive theory of corporate governance. I had actually not come across it in my research, it is most helpful. 

Thank you.

I have a number of papers published about corporate governance including empirical studies and review paper. You may want to check them out. Copies can be downloaded through ResearchGate or Google Scholar.

Dear Dr. Ahmed,

Thank you so much. I had already read one and will review the others as well. 

I advice you to go through these books:

1-  Handbook on International Corporate Governance: Country Analyses, by Christine A. Mallin,

2- International Corporate Governance, A Case Study Approach, by Christine A. Mallin, 

3- An International Comparison of Corporate Governance Models, by Gregory Francesco Maassen

4- Comparative Corporate Governance: Shareholders as a Rule-maker, by Petri Mäntysaari

Dear Shafeq,

Thank you, will look them up

Another good textbook is Baker (2010): Corporate Governance: A Synthesis of Theory, Research, and Practice 

Dear Michael Mies, 

Thank you, I will look it up.