Corporate governance in contention

"Corporate governance is a complex idea that is often inappropriately simplified as a cookbook of recommended measures to improve financial performance. Meta studies of published research show that the supposed benign effects of these measures - independent directors or highly incentivised exec...

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Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: Oxford 2018
Oxford University Press
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description "Corporate governance is a complex idea that is often inappropriately simplified as a cookbook of recommended measures to improve financial performance. Meta studies of published research show that the supposed benign effects of these measures - independent directors or highly incentivised executives - are at best context-specific. There is thus a challenge to explain the meaning, purpose, and importance of corporate governance. This volume addresses these issues. 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. The essays in this collection are the considered selection by the editors and the contributors themselves of what are seen as some of the most weighty and urgent issues that connect the corporation and society at large in developed economies with established property rights. The essays are to be read in dialogue with each other, giving a richer understanding than could be obtained by shepherding all contributions into a single mould. Nevertheless taken together they demonstrate a shared sense of deep concern that the corporate governance agenda has been and still is on the wrong track. The contributors, individually and collectively, identify in this compendium both a research programme and a platform for change."
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physical XVIII, 318 p.
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publishDate 2018
publisher Oxford
Oxford University Press
spellingShingle corporate governance
law
shareholder
investment
labour relations
Corporate governance in contention
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title Corporate governance in contention
topic corporate governance
law
shareholder
investment
labour relations
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19390387124911185699-Corporate-governance-in-conten.htm