Corporate governance at the crossroads : a book of readings

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Corporate governance at the crossroads : a book of readings

edited by Donald H. Chew, Jr. and Stuart L. Gillan

(The Irwin/McGraw-Hill series in finance, insurance, and real estate)

McGraw-Hill, c2005

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"Corporate Governance at the Crossroads: A Book of Readings" has both groundbreaking and recent articles on corporate governance. It is a perfect supplement and packaging item with McGraw-Hill/Irwin's many undergraduate or graduate corporate finance textbooks.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1: Corporate Governance Perspectives An Overview of Corporate Governance 1 VALUE MAXIMIZATION, STAKEHOLDER THEORY, AND THE CORPORATE OBJECTIVE FUNCTION, Michael C. Jensen 2 THE MODERN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, EXIT, AND THE FAILURE OF INTERNAL CONTROL SYSTEMS Michael C. Jensen 3 IS AMERICAN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FATALLY FLAWED? Merton Miller 4 THE POLITICAL ROOTS OF AMERICAN CORPORATE FINANCE Mark J. Roe 5 INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE DIFFERENCES: MARKETS OR LAW? Frank H. Easterbrook, 6 THE STATE OF US CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: WHAT'S RIGHT AND WHAT'S WRONG? Bengt Holmstrom and Steven N. Kaplan Ethics and Incentives 7 THE NATURE OF MAN Michael Jensen and William Meckling 8 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, ETHICS, AND ORGANIZATIONAL ARCHITECTURE James Brickley, Clifford Smith, and Jerold Zimmerman 9 INCENTIVES, RATIONALITY, AND SOCIETY Michael Brennan 10 SELF-INTEREST, ALTRUISM, INCENTIVES, AND AGENCY Michael Jensen 11 Roundtable On Integrity and Financial Reporting Chapter 2: Internal Governance Boards of Directors 12 THE DIRECTOR'S NEW CLOTHES (OR, THE MYTH OF CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY) Robert Monks, Institutional Shareholder Partners, Inc., and Nell Minow 13 CONTINENTAL BANK ROUNDTABLE ON THE ROLE OF CORPORATE BOARDS IN THE 1990s Panelists: James Birle, the Blackstone Group
  • Wade Cable, the Presley Companies
  • Michael Jensen, Harvard Business School
  • Roger Lee, Caesars World
  • John Roach, Fibreboard Corporation
  • William Roper, Science Applications International Corporation
  • Fred Simmons, Freeman Spogli
  • Bennett Stewart, Stern Stewart & Co.
  • and John Teets, the DialCorp. 14 THE ACTIVE BOARD OF DIRECTOR AND ITS EFFECT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE LARGE PUBLICLY TRADED CORPORATION Paul W. MacAvoy and Ira M. Millstein Compensation 15 CEO INCENTIVES - IT'S NOT HOW MUCH YOU PAY, BUT HOW Michael C. Jensen and Kevin J. Murphy 16 THE CASE FOR EXPENSING STOCK OPTIONS AGAINST EARNINGS Merton H. Miller and Graef S. Crystal 17 HAS PAY FOR PERFORMANCE GONE AWRY? VIEWS FROM A CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FORUM Stuart L. Gillan 18 GOLF TOURNAMENTS AND CEO PAY-UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION John Martin 19 OPTION-BASED COMPENSATION: PANACEA OR PANDORA'S BOX? Stuart L. Gillan 20 TWELVE WAYS TO STRENGTHEN YOUR INCENTIVE PLAN David Glassman, Stern Stewart & Co., 21 EVIDENCE ON EVA Gary C. Biddle, Robert M. Bowen, and James S. Wallace, University of California at Irvine, 22 SIX CHALLENGES IN DESIGNING EQUITY PAY PLANS Brian Hall Incentives and Organizational Structure 23 THE CEO: A VISIBLE HAND IN WEALTH CREATION? C.K. Prahalad and Yves L. Doz 24 DECENTRALIZATION, INCENTIVES, AND VALUE CREATION: THE CASE OF JLG INDUSTRIES Heidi Treml and Kenneth Lehn 25 ADDING VALUE FOR SHAREHOLDERS IN SOUTH AFRICA: AN ANALYSIS OF THE REMBRANDT RESTRUCTING, Brian Kantor 26 LEVERAGED RECAPS AND THE CURBING OF CORPORATE OVERINVESTMENT David J. Denis and Diane K. Denis 27 PERFORMANCE, LEVERAGE, AND OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE IN REVERSE LBOs Robert W. Holthausen and David F. Larcker Chapter 3: External Governance Ownership and Control 28 THE GROWTH OF INSTITUTIONAL STOCK OWNERSHIP: A PROMISE UNFULFILLED Franklin R. Edwards and R. Glenn Hubbard 29 CORPORATE OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL IN THE U.K., GERMANY, AND FRANCE Julian Franks and Colin Mayer 30 LARGE BANK STOCKHOLDERS IN GERMANY: SAVIORS OR SUBSTITUTES? William J. Carney Markets 31 TAKEOVERS, MANAGEMENT REPLACEMENT, AND POST-ACQUISITION OPERATING PERFORMANCE: SOME EVIDENCE FROM THE 1980s James D. Parrino and Robert S. Harris 32 CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING IN THE 1980s - AND ITS IMPORT FOR THE 1990s Gordon Donaldson 33 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN GERMAN CAPITAL MARKETS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Eric Nowak 34 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN AN EMERGING MARKET: THE CASE OF ISRAEL Asher Blass, Yishay Yafeh, and Oved Yosha Financial Reporting 35 EVIDENCE THAT GREATER DISCLOSURE LOWERS THE COST OF EQUITY CAPITAL Christine A. Botosan 36 R & D AND CAPITAL MARKETS Baruch Lev 37 GOODWILL ACCOUNTING: EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED 38 ACCOUNTING IS BROKEN AND HERE'S HOW TO FIX IT Bennett Stewart 39 ACCOUNTING DOESN'T NEED FIXING (JUST SOME REINTERPRETING) George Benston 40 JUST SAY NO TO WALL STREET: PUTTING A STOP TO THE EARNINGS GAME Joseph Fuller and Michael Jensen

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  • NCID
    BA70303190
  • ISBN
    • 9780072957082
  • LCCN
    2003066489
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Boston, Mass.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 512 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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