Theories of corporate governance : the philosophical foundations of corporate governance /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Description:xii, 370 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5579781
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Other authors / contributors:Clarke, Thomas, 1950-
ISBN:0415323088
041532307X (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Theories of Governance: Reconceptualising corporate governance theory after the Enron experience
  • Part 1. Economic Foundations
  • 2. The Managerial Revolution in American Business
  • 3. The Impact of the Corporation on Classical Economic Theory
  • Part 2. Agency Theory
  • 4. Theory of the Firm, Managerial Behaviour, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
  • 5. Separation of Ownership and Control
  • 6. Agency Theory: An assessment and review
  • Part 3. Managerial Hegemony
  • 7. Directors: Myth and reality
  • 8. Pawns Or Potentates: The Reality of America's Corporate Boards
  • Part 4. Stewardship Theory
  • 9. Towards A Stewardship Theory of Management
  • Part 5. External Pressures
  • 10. The Resource Dependence Role of Corporate Directors: Strategic adaptation of board composition in response to environmental change
  • 11. Institutional and Strategic Choice Perspectives on Board Involvement in the Strategic Decision Process
  • 12. A General Theory of Network Governance: Exchange conditions and social mechanisms
  • Part 6. Stakeholder Theory
  • 13. Ownership and Control: Rethinking corporate governance for the 21st century
  • 14. The Stakeholder Corporation: A business philosophy for the information age
  • Part 7. Theories of Convergence
  • 15. Corporate Leadership in a Globalising Equity Market
  • 16. Corporate Governance and Globalisation: Is there convergence across countries?
  • 17. Capital Unbound?: The transformation of European corporate governance
  • 18. The Very Uncertain Prospects of "Global" Convergence In Corporate Governance
  • Part 8. Critique of Shareholder Value
  • 19. Maximising Shareholder Value: A new ideology for corporate governance
  • 20. Corporate Governance, Property and Democracy: A conceptual critique of shareholder ideology
  • Part 9. Post-Enron Theories
  • 21. What Enron Means for the Management and Control of the Modern Business Corporation: Some initial reflections
  • 22. What Caused Enron?: A capsule social and economic history of the 1990s