Web usage for investor relationship of the joint stock corporations and design of a web-content management tool

Major problem in countries having a stock exchange is to provide companies to be honest in their financial dealings with investors. There are many acts and regulations enforcing companies to generate a corporate governance policy. Therefore, the booklet Corporate Governance Principles was published by Capital Market Board of Turkey. The use of Internet plays on important role for companies in e expressing themselves to investors. This study considers Internet usage of joint stock corporations in giving in,formation to their investors by examining the websites of corporations according to criteria written in the booklet. In addition to this statistical research, a content management tool was designed to help the corporations in checking and updating their websites if it includes each principle or not.