FN ISI Export Format VR 1.0 PT J TI Corporate Governance AF Frisvold, Lars AU Frisvold, L AB This scope and objective of this paper is threefold. The first section of the thesis presents corporate governance guidelines published in Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain, France, and the Netherlands. The guidelines are presented with the objective of creating common criteria for good corporate governance in Europe. In the second section, the corporate governance of 5 European airlines is presented as the airlines project it through publications such as annual reports and individual statements. The airlines presented correspond with the countries presented in section one and are Swiss, Lufthansa, British Airways, Air France, and KLM. The third section of the thesis utilizes the common criteria for good European corporate governance developed in section one while attempting to rate and compare the corporate governance efforts done by the airlines presented in section two. ER