Rethinking Corporate Governance : The Forming of Operative and Financial Strategies in Global Corporations

Sven-Erik Sjostrand

ISBN 10: 178195142X / ISBN 13: 9781781951422

Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Mai 2016, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Corporate Governance : The Forming of Operative and Financial Strategies in Global Corporations
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Mai 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178195142X
• ISBN 13: 9781781951422
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 244W x 169H x 0D millimeters 244 millimeters width by 169 millimeters height by 0 millimeters depth

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Synopsis

Rethinking Corporate Governance's extensive and insightful empirical investigation offers a radically new approach to corporate governance. This ground-breaking volume describes and analyzes the key nature-based and actor-based forces that ultimately determine corporate governance processes and long-term corporate paths. Generally, such forces work in complex and intricate interplays that to a large extent vary among corporations.

A theory of shareholder governance is developed and integrated into the established - and more comprehensive - theory of corporate governance to create a revised theory of the corporation (firm). The new possibilities that this creates for explaining how processes develop and ultimately influence corporate paths are presented in-depth. Featuring conclusions based on an empirical material that is both rich and exclusive, the book also contains extensive non-anonymized materials from authentic corporate governance processes. A general conclusion is that actions taken by individuals have a special status among those forces, as they not only generate impact in themselves, but also involve interpretations of the possible effects of all the other forces.Among those actions, the ones taken by the shareholders stand out as particularly decisive both for the governance processes as such and for how corporations develop over time.

Offering a degree of openness, detail and realism that is hard to find in any other case-based study this innovative and enlightening volume is essential for both academics and practitioners involved in corporate governance, corporate strategy and the theory of the firm.

About the Author

Sven-Erik Sjöstrand, Professor Emeritus, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden