Corporate governance in contention
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Corporate governance in contention
Oxford University Press, 2018
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Corporate governance is a complex idea that is often inappropriately simplified as a cookbook of recommended measures to improve financial performance. Meta studies of published research show that the supposed benign effects of these measures - independent directors or highly incentivised executives - are at best context-specific. There is thus a challenge to explain the meaning, purpose, and importance of corporate governance. This volume addresses these issues.
The issues discussed centre on relationships within the firm e.g. between labour, managers, and investors, and relationships outside the firm that affect consumers or the environment.
The essays in this collection are the considered selection by the editors and the contributors themselves of what are seen as some of the most weighty and urgent issues that connect the corporation and society at large in developed economies with established property rights. The essays are to be read in dialogue with each other, giving a richer understanding than could be obtained by shepherding all contributions into a single mould. Nevertheless taken together they demonstrate a shared sense
of deep concern that the corporate governance agenda has been and still is on the wrong track. The contributors, individually and collectively, identify in this compendium both a research programme and a platform for change.
Table of Contents
1: Ciaran Driver and Grahame Thompson: Introduction
Part 1. Corporate Forms and the Law
2: Simon Deakin: Reversing Financialisation: Shareholder Value and the Legal Reform of Corporate Governance
3: Kevin Levillain, Simon Parker, Rory Ridley-Duff, Blanche Segrestin, Jeroen Veldman and Hugh Willmott: Protecting Long-Term Commitment: Legal and Organizational Means
4: Steen Thomsen: Foundation Ownership and Firm Performance: A Review of the International Evidence
5: Prem Sikka: Corporate Governance and Family-Owned Companies: The Case of BHS
Part 2. Corporate Governance Systems and Innovation
6: William Lazonick: The Functions of the Stock Market and the Fallacies of Shareholder Value
7: Fabio Landini And Ugo Pagano: The Evolution of Corporate Species
8: Jackie Krafft And Jacques-Laurent Ravix: Corporate Governance: Shareholders Primacy, Owners Activism and the Potential Mismatch with Innovation
Part 3. Worker Involvement and Corporate Governance
9: John Child: Downward Accountability
10: Bob Hancke: How Including Labour Can Improve Corporate Governance
11: Ciaran Driver: Fixing the Corporation: A Management or a Governance Issue?
Part 4. Broadening The Corporate Governance Debate
12: Colin Crouch: The Incompatibles: Shareholder Maximization and Consumer Sovereignty
13: Jette Steen Knudsen: Government Regulation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Implications for Corporate Governance
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