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Black Markets... and Business Blues: The Man-made Crisis of 2007-2009 and the Road to a New Capitalism - Hardcover

 
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In Ottawa, Brussels, Paris, Berlin, London, some policy makers in and around governments nudged their society towards the American model of business and finance, write Professors Allaire and Firsirotu. Shareholders , now a changing, transient and impatient cohort of funds and speculators, want to dictate business decisions. The black markets of finance, the unregulated, secretive, barely licit, parts of the financial markets, have thrived and infected the entire economic system. Business blues, a feeling of insecurity and unfairness, pervades publicly traded companies as richly paid executives take all measures to boost share price, protect their precarious job, and please their financial masters. This system crashed in the fall of 2008. This is the time and opportunity, write the authors, for societies and their governments to make radical changes before the shaken, destabilized maestros of finance recover their aplomb. Whether that latest crisis leads the U.S. to adopt truly different economic arrangements remains unanswered, even doubtful. However, now that the American system of economics and finance has lost its lustre, other societies may, and should, choose to arrange their economic institutions in ways that suit them. What is required, according to the authors, is a new capitalism, a capitalism based on forms of business ownership and compensation which will maintain or bring back some level of trust and loyalty within companies, a long term perspective in their management and a due consideration of the stakeholders that give companies their legitimacy and purpose. The authors argue persuasively for a set of policies that will bring about this new form of capitalism, one that yields and countenances the good society.

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Yvan Allaire, Ph.D. (M.I.T), FRSC Emeritus Professor (UQAM), chairman of the Institute for Governance (HEC-Concordia). Author of prized articles, professor consultant to senior management, and former senior executive of a Canadian multinational, Yvan Allaire brings a wealth of experience and expertise to corporate and socials issues ranging from strategies to policy making. Mihaela E. Firsirotu, Ph.D. (Mc Gill), Bombardier Professor of Strategy (UQAM). Author, researcher, lecturer to senior management, Professor Firsirotu is an expert in corporate and social change. She has published key papers on the subject and receives the American Academy of Management prize for best dissertation in strategy.
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Thoughtful, passionate, majestic---the distillation of 30 years of studying and practicing business strategy at the highest level is applied to the greatest crisis in business performance and values since the Great Depression. --Robert Greenhill, Managing Director and Chief Business Officer, World Economic Forum

There's a series of recent books on how we got into the current financial, but the advantage of this one is that it's set out in an overall philosophical, economic and historical context and isn't willing to settle for more of the same in the future... their astute analysis, with its many unexpected insights and their take-no-prisoners tone, holds the reader's interest. --Harvey Schachter, The Globe and Mail

A must read ! This is a thought-provoking book wich offers solutions to critical issues of corporate governance, risk and modern capital markets! --Guy Savard, Chairman, Merrill Lynch Canada

There's a series of recent books on how we got into the current financial, but the advantage of this one is that it's set out in an overall philosophical, economic and historical context and isn't willing to settle for more of the same in the future... their astute analysis, with its many unexpected insights and their take-no-prisoners tone, holds the reader's interest. --Harvey Schachter, The Globe and Mail

A must read ! This is a thought-provoking book wich offers solutions to critical issues of corporate governance, risk and modern capital markets! --Guy Savard, Chairman, Merrill Lynch Canada

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  • ISBN 13 9782922285451
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