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This textbook provides an authoritative analysis of the codes and company laws regulating international corporate organizations. The book equips the reader with an understanding of corporate governance theory and investigates how the financial crisis continues to shape real-world policy and practice.
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The most authoritative, complete, and critical guide to corporate governance.
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Corporate governance around the world continues to develop rapidly and this new edition has been extensively rewritten to reflect these changes. The global financial crisis has led to a whole host of changes in corporate governance requirements, which are analysed by Bob Tricker.
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A collection of 30 journal articles and book chapters previously published between 1972-1998.
Traditionally, books on business ethics focus on CSR, companies’ relations with their stakeholders, and corporate citizenship. More recently, green credentials and sustainability have been added to that agenda. Unconventionally, this book argues that business ethics are basic to running business, not a separate subject. They are inherent to the governance and management of every organization, not an optional exercise in corporate citizenship. Business ethics concern behaviour in business and the behaviour of business. Decisions at every level in a company have ethical implications – strategically in the board room, managerially throughout the organization, and operationally in all of its...
The role of directors is being taken ever more seriously as it becomes more and more clear that, in the complex and fast-moving business environment of today, standards of corporate governance need to be high if corporate scandals that damage shareholders, employees and pension funds are to be avoided. This book is an essential guide to the whole subject of corporate governance, with entries that stretch from A to Z and cover such concepts and terms as: Agency theory, Audit Committee, Board structure, Board style, Conformance roles, Corporate veil, Deep pocket syndrome, Disclosure, Ethics, Fiduciary duty, Games directors play, Helicopter vision, Indemnity insurance, Log rolling, Mentor, Non-executive director, Poison pill, Quorum, Remuneration committee, Shareholder value, Stakeholder theory, Tokenism, Two hat dilemma, Unitary board, Voting rights, War room, Yakusa, and Zaibatsu. And extensive appendices provide codes of best practice and checklists that will be of immense practical help to those involved in setting and raising standards of governance in their organisations.