Corporate Governance : Promises Kept, Promises Broken /
Even in the wake of the biggest financial crash of the postwar era, the United States continues to rely on Securities and Exchange Commission oversight and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which set tougher rules for boards, management, and public accounting firms to protect the interests of shareholders. Su...
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Corporate governance as promise
- The goals of corporate governance : the dominant role of equity
- Corporate law and corporate governance
- Institutions and mechanisms of corporate governance : a taxonomy
- Boards of directors
- Case studies on boards of directors in corporate governance
- Dissident directors
- Formal external institutions of corporate governance : the role of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the stock exchanges, and the credit-rating agencies
- The market for corporate control
- Initial public offerings and private placements
- Governance by litigation : derivative lawsuits
- Accounting, accounting rules, and the accounting industry
- Quirky governance : insider trading, short selling and whistle-blowing
- Shareholder voting
- The role of banks and other lenders in corporate governance
- Hedge funds and private equity.