Corporate Governance: Accountability, Enterprise and International Comparisons - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470870303 ISBN 13: 9780470870303

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Synopsis

The decade since the publication of the Cadbury Report in1992 has seen growing interest in corporate governance. This growth has recently become an explosion with major corporate scandals such as WorldCom and Enron in the US, the international diffusion of corporate governance codes and wider interest in researching corporate governance in different institutional contexts and through different subject lenses.

In view of these developments, this book will be a rigorous update and development of the editor’s earlier work, Corporate Governance: Economic, Management and Financial Issues.   Each chapter, written by an expert in the subject offers a high level review of the topic, embracing material from financial accounting, strategy and economic perspectives. 

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Through a mixture of corporate scandals, increasing concerns about the rights of various stakeholders and the emergence of new economies in the Far East, corporate governance continues to be a key issue for students of economics, finance, business and management. By commissioning acknowledged academic authorities to write in-depth summaries of the debate in their chosen specialities, this text draws together the strands of the corporate governance debate from different disciplinary and country perspectives.

There is no other book that covers such a range of topics in corporate governance from the perspectives of leading academics across the globe. This book will be essential reading for students studying corporate governance for undergraduate, MA or MBA degrees.

Topics covered include:

• Financial Structure and Corporate Governance (Robert Watson and Mahmoud Ezzamel – Durham and Cardiff)
• Compensation Committees and Executive Compensation (Rocio Bonet and Martin Conyon – The Wharton School)
• Explaining Western Securities Markets (Mark Roe – Harvard)
• International Corporate Governance (Diane Denis and John McConnell – Purdue)
• Corporate Governance in France (Mary O’Sullivan – INSEAD)
• Corporate Governance in China (Guy Liu and Pei Sun - Brunel and Cambridge)

About the Author:

Kevin Keasey is Professor of Finance and the Director of the International Institute of Banking and Financial Services, Leeds University Business School, The University of Leeds. Kevin is an author of 10 books, monographs and edited volumes on small firm finance, corporate governance and financial markets, and is the author of over 75 refereed articles in leading international journals. His research covers a range of disciplinary perspectives and methodologies from the empirical to the experimental.

Steve Thompson is currently a professor in Nottingham University Business School, having previously held positions in economics departments and business schools in the UK, the USA and Ireland.  He has published approximately 100 articles in economics and business journals that include Review of Ecomomics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Strategic Management Journal, and the Journal of Management Studies

Mike Wright is Professor of Financial Studies and Director of the Centre for Management Buy-out Research at Nottingham University Business School. He is a visiting professor at INSEAD, Erasmus University and University of Siena and an editor of Journal of Management Studies. He is the author of over 25 books and more than 200 papers in academic journals in the areas of corporate governance and restructuring, venture capital, management buy-outs and entrepreneurship.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0470870303
• ISBN 13: 9780470870303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 488
• Editor: Keasey Professor Of Accounting And Finance Kevin, Thompson Steve, Wright Michael