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Corporate governance /
In the wake of the recent global financial collapse the timely new edition of this successful text provides students and business professionals with a welcome update of the key issues facing managers, boards of directors, investors, and shareholders. In addition to its authoritative overview of the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. :
John Wiley & Sons,
2011.
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| Edición: | 5th ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cases in Point
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- 2.
- 3.
- 4.
- 5.
- Notes
- Introduction
- How to Use this Book
- How to Use This Book
- 1. : What is a Corporation
- Defining the Corporate Structure, Purpose, and Powers
- Evolution of the Corporate Structure
- The Purpose of a Corporation
- Metaphor 1: The Corporation as a "person"
- Metaphor 2: The Corporation as a Complex Adaptive System
- Are Corporate Decisions "Moral"
- Are Corporations Accountable.
- Three Key External Mechanisms for Directing Corporate Behavior: Law, The Market, and Performance MeasurementWhat does "Within the Limits of the Law" Mean
- A Market Test: Measuring Performance
- Equilibrium: The Cadbury Paradigm
- Esg: Environment, Social Governance
- A New Way to Analyze Investment Risk and Value
- Quantifying Nontraditional Assets and Liabilities
- Future Directions
- Summary and Discussion Questions
- Notes
- 2. : Shareholders: Ownership
- Definitions
- Early Concepts of Ownership
- EARLY CONCEPTS OF THE CORPORATION
- A Dual Heritage: Individual and Corporate "RIGHTS."
- The Reinvention Of The Corporation: Eastern Europe In The 1990SThe Evolution Of The American Corporation
- The Essential Elements Of The Corporate Structure
- The Mechanics Of Shareholder Rights
- The Separation Of Ownership And Control, Part 1: Berle and Means
- Fractionated Ownership
- The Separation of Ownership and Control, Part 2: The Takeover ERA
- Waking The Sleeping Giant
- A Framework For Shareholder Monitoring and Response
- Ownership and Responsibility
- No Innocent Shareholder
- To Sell Or Not To Sell: The Prisoner's Dilemma
- Who The Institutional Investors Are.
- The Biggest Pool Of Money In The WorldPublic Pension Funds
- Private Pension Funds
- The Sleeping Giant Awakens: Shareholder Proxy Proposals on Governance Issues
- Focus on The Board
- Hedge Funds
- Synthesis: Hermes
- Investing in Activism
- New Models and New Paradigms
- The "Ideal Owner"
- Pension Funds as "Ideal Owners"
- Is the "Ideal Owner" Enough
- Summary and Discussion Questions
- Notes
- 3. : Directors: Monitoring
- A Brief History of Anglo-American Boards
- Who are They
- Who Leads the Board Splitting the Chairman and Ceo and the Rise of the Lead Director
- Diversity
- Meetings.
- Communicating with ShareholdersSpecial Obligations of Audit Committees
- Ownership/Compensation
- Post-Sarbanes-oxley Changes
- Board Duties: The Legal Framework
- The Board's Agenda
- The Evolution of Board Responsibilities: The Takeover Era
- The Fiduciary Standard and the Delaware Factor
- The Director's Role in Crisis
- Limits and Obstacles to Board Oversight of Managers
- Information Flow
- Practical Limits: Time and Money
- The Years of Corporate Scandals
- Boards Begin to Ask for More
- Director Information Checklist
- Who Runs the Board
- Catch 22: The Ex-CEO as Director
- Director Resignation.