Fair Shares: The Future of Shareholder Power and Responsibility

by Jonathan Charkham, Anne Simpson

Overview

This book shows the importance of shareholder interest and involvement, which both authors strongly believe will remain in the best interests of the company and the wider society in the 21st century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198292142
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/29/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	9.51(w) x 6.36(h) x 0.82(d)
Lexile:	1330L (what's this?)

About the Author

Jonathan Charkham was formerly adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England and is Visiting Professor at City University, London. He has served on many committees on corporate governance abroad and in the UK including the National Health Service (1993/4) and the Cadbury Committee. He is an Adviser to PIRC Ltd, a member of the Committee of the Joint Disciplinary Scheme of the Accounting Profession, and a non-executive director of Great Universal Stores PLC. He is the author of Keeping Good Company: A Study of Corporate Governance in Five Counties (OUP, 1995).
Anne Simpson is Managing Director of PIRC, one of the main consultancy bodies associated with corporate governance and institutional shareholder choice.

Table of Contents

Why a Book about Shareholders?
1. The Purpose of the Company
2. The Role of Shareholders
3. The World of Regulation
4. The Development of the Joint Stock Company
5. The Role of the Directors
6. The Legal Framework for Shareholder Rights and Powers
7. The Role of Banks
8. The Ownership of Companies
9. Shares as a Home for Savings
10. The Private Shareholder
11. Narrower Share Ownership
12. The Power Within Companies
13. The Rise of the Institutions
14. The Legal Obligations of Institutional Shareholders
15. Traders or Owners?
16. The Institutions: Combined Action
17. Disclosure
18. The International Dimension
19. General Meetings
20. Remuneration
21. The Obligations of Significant Ownership
22. Guarding the Guards
23. A Programme of Reform