ISBN : 9780198805274
This book debates the meaning and purpose of corporate governance in advanced countries today. The issues discussed centre on relationships within the firm e.g. between labour, managers, and investors, and relationships outside the firm that affect consumers or the environment.
1 Ciaran Driver and Grahame Thompson: Introduction
Part 1. Corporate Forms and the Law
2 Simon Deakin: Reversing Financialisation: Shareholder Value and the Legal Reform of Corporate Governance
3 Kevin Levillain, Simon Parker, Rory Ridley-Duff, Blanche Segrestin, Jeroen Veldman and Hugh Willmott: Protecting Long-Term Commitment: Legal and Organizational Means
4 Steen Thomsen: Foundation Ownership and Firm Performance: A Review of the International Evidence
5 Prem Sikka: Corporate Governance and Family-Owned Companies: The Case of BHS
Part 2. Corporate Governance Systems and Innovation
6 William Lazonick: The Functions of the Stock Market and the Fallacies of Shareholder Value
7 Fabio Landini And Ugo Pagano: The Evolution of Corporate Species
8 Jackie Krafft And Jacques-Laurent Ravix: Corporate Governance: Shareholders Primacy, Owners Activism and the Potential Mismatch with Innovation
Part 3. Worker Involvement and Corporate Governance
9 John Child: Downward Accountability
10 Bob Hancke: How Including Labour Can Improve Corporate Governance
11 Ciaran Driver: Fixing the Corporation: A Management or a Governance Issue?
Part 4. Broadening The Corporate Governance Debate
12 Colin Crouch: The Incompatibles: Shareholder Maximization and Consumer Sovereignty
13 Jette Steen Knudsen: Government Regulation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Implications for Corporate Governance