Corporate governance jako nowy obszar wiedzy i praktyki biznesowej

The purpose of this paper is to analyse global, mainly Anglo-Saxon and German experience in the field of corporate governance and then attempt to answer a question to what extent this experience should be used in the Polish model of corporate governance. In the first part of the paper the author conducts a review of world literature and presents the most important conclusions from a discussion on the need for changes in both Anglo-Saxon and German corporate governance solutions. These changes are proceeding simultaneously and what is interesting - as the author concludes - both (Anglo- -Saxon and German) models gradually get closer to each other. In the second part of the paper the author introduce the process of convergence of various models and identify the most important elements of this process. The whole paper ends with a recapitulation of the most important conclusions from the discussion.