Corporate Governance: Economic and Financial Issues

by Kevin Keasey, Steve Thompson, Mike Wright

Overview

There is little doubt that corporate governance has become one of the key issues for students of business and management in the 1990s. This book is the first to draw together the various strands of the debate from the economics, finance, and accounting perspectives, and from an international angle that includes discussion of the issues as they relate to governance in the UK, USA, Germany, Japan, and Eastern Europe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198289906
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/02/1997
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

University of Leeds

both at University of Nottingham

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on the Contributors
1. Introduction: The Corporate Governance Problem - Competing Diagnoses and Solutions, Kevin Keasey, Steve Thompson, and Mike Wright
2. Institutional Shareholders and Corporate Governance in the United Kingdom, Helen Short and Kevin Keasey
3. Wearing Two Hats: The Conflicting Control and Management Roles of Non-Executive Directors, Mahmoud Ezzamel and Robert Watson
4. Executive Reward and Corporate Governance, Alistair Bruce and Trevor Buck
5. Institutional Arrangements for Setting Directors' Compensation in UK Companies, Martin J. Conyon
6. Governance by Exit: An Analysis of the Market for Corporate Control, Pauline O'Sullivan
7. Venture Capitalists, Buy-Outs and Corporate Governance, Mike Wright, Steve Thompson, and Ken Robbie
8. Market (United States) versus Managed (Japanese) Governance, Hicheon Kim and Robert E. Hoskisson
9. Cross-Border Governance in Multinational Enterprises, Peter J. Buckley
10. Corporate Governance in Central and Eastern Europe, Mike Wright, Igor Filatotchev, and Trevor Buck
11. Governance in Germany: The Foundations of Corporate Structure?, Thomas Clarke and Richard Bostock
12. Corporate Governance in the Privatized Utilities: The Case of the Water Industry, Stuart Ogden
13. Corporate Governance in the Public Sector: The Case of the NHS, Lynn Ashburner
Index

Editorial Reviews

Offers graduate and undergraduate students and practitioners of corporate governance perspectives from economics, finance, and accounting, and discusses issues as they relate to several highly industrialized countries and those of eastern Europe. Identifies four primary models: principle-agent or finance, myopic-marker or short-termism, the abuse of executive power, and the stakeholder. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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