“…The implementation of a corporate governance system in the company, comprising a set of good practices, has been defended as able to improve firm management, firm performance, and firm relationship with the market. In this context, studies have documented that, in fact, companies with better corporate governance practices present more favorable performance than the others, both in the Brazilian (Crisóstomo & Melo Júnior, 2015;Fernandes, Dias & Cunha, 2010;Lima, Oliveira, Cabral, Santos & Pessoa, 2015;Macedo & Corrar, 2012;Procianoy & Verdi, 2009;Srour, 2005) and international scenario (Alves and Mendes, 2004;Azeez, 2015;Black, Jang, & Kim 2006;Brick & Chidambaran, 2010;Drobetz, Schillhofer, & Zimmermann, 2004;Duru, Iyengar, & Zampelli, 2016;Elsayed, 2007;Franco & Montalván, 2010;Goncharov, Werner & Zimmermann, 2006, Haniffa & Hudaib, 2006Henry, 2010). Despite these results, previous research in Brazil has found results in the direction that companies still do not envision a favorable cost-benefit relation with the adoption of recommended corporate governance practices, which may be constraining the advance in adopting good corporate governance practices (Brandão & Crisóstomo, 2015;Sonza & Kloeckner, 2014).…”