Corporate category: 1876 books
by Stephen Bainbridge
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2008
Forty years ago, managerialism dominated corporate governance. In both theory and practice, a team of senior managers ran the corporation with little or no interference from other stakeholders. Shareholders were essentially powerless and typically quiescent. Boards of directors were little more than...
Icarus in the Boardroom
The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Americans have always loved risktakers. Like the Icarus of ancient Greek lore, however, even the most talented entrepreneurs can overstep their bounds. All too often, the very qualities that make Icaran executives special-- self-confidence, visionary insight, and extreme competitiveness--spur them...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The Routledge Handbook of Corporate Law provides an accessible overview of current research in the field, from an international and comparative perspective.
In recent years there has been an explosion of corporate law research, as this area of law continues to develop rapidly throughout the...
Shareholder Primacy and Global Business
Re-clothing the EU Corporate Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
In the context of growing public interest in sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has not brought about the expected improvement in terms of sustainable business. Self-regulation has been unable to provide appropriate answers for unsustainable business frameworks, despite empirical...
by Andrew Keay
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Within corporate governance the accountability of the board of directors is identified as a major issue by governments, international bodies, professional associations and academic literature. Boards are given significant power in companies, and as a consequence it is argued that they should be...
Corporate Governance Matters
A Closer Look at Organizational Choices and Their Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference for implementing and sustaining superior corporate governance. Stanford corporate governance experts David Larcker and Bryan Tayan carefully synthesize current academic and professional research, summarizing what is known and unknown, and where...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
The events that began with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and Adelphia and continued into the financial crisis of 2008 teach us an important lesson: corporate governance matters. Although it is widely acknowledged that good corporate governance is a linchpin of good corporate performance,...
Survey Research in Corporate Finance
Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Corporate finance is a multifaceted discipline in which everything works in theory but not necessarily in practice. To bridge this gap, intelligently designed and executed surveys are essential in empirically validating conceptual hypotheses and the relative usefulness of various theories. Survey...
Global Corporate Finance
A Focused Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Global Corporate Finance, 2nd edition written by a son-father team introduces students and practitioners to those principles essential to the understanding of global financial problems and the policies that global business managers contend with. The objective of this book is to equip current and future...
Corporate Boards in Law and Practice
A Comparative Analysis in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Corporate boards play a central role in corporate governance and are thus regulated in the corporate law and corporate governance codes of all industrialized countries. Yet while there is a common core of rules on the boards considerable differences remain. These differences depend partly on shareholder...
Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries
Perspectives on Anti-Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
The increasing importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) means that companies must consider multi-stakeholder interests as well as the social, political, economic, environmental and developmental impact of their actions. However, the pursuit of profits by multinational corporations has led...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Japanese corporate governance and managerial practice is at a critical juncture. At the start of the decade pressures mounted for Japan to move to a shareholder-value driven, 'Anglo-American' system of corporate governance. Subsequent changes, however, may be seen as an adjustment and renewal of the...
by John L. Teall
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Governance and the Market for Corporate Control is a textbook for use on business courses dealing with mergers, acquisitions, governance restructuring and corporate control.
Three key features distinguish this book from competing texts. First, following up on recent developments in the corporate...
Legal Professional Privilege for Corporations
A Guide to Four Major Common Law Jurisdictions
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
A comprehensive account of legal professional privilege as it applies to corporations covering four major common law jurisdictions: the UK, Australia, Canada and the United States. Higgins provides a practical set of principles to advise practitioners in the large number of areas where there is uncertainty...