Corporate Governance

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 464 pages
• Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
• Edition: 4th Edition March 7, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1405171065
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1405171069
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 2.7 pounds

Professor Brian Cheffins, University of Cambridge
"Everyone interested in business issues should welcome the publication of a new edition of this first-rate text." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
In a business environment that is increasingly volatile, now more than ever, business students must understand the relationships between managers, boards of directors, shareholders, and investors.

The new edition of this acclaimed text offers an indispensable guide to the key concepts of corporate governance every student and business professional should know. It includes more exercises and student questions, penetrating analysis of the latest examples of corporate failure and controversy, and the lively "cases in point" which have characterized previous editions.

Corporate Governance provides an authoritative overview, offering the latest codes of practice, new cases of current interest; and a web link to The Corporate Library, the leading independent research firm in the field. It is an invaluable resource tool for business managers and students alike.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Corporate Governance (Paperback) If you want a single-volume resource on the topic of corporate governance, I urge you to beg, borrow, steal--or better yet, in the spirit of free enterprise, buy with a click from Amazon--Corporate Governance, now heading for another printing due to popular demand. Monks, a former Labor Department official, and Minow, an attorney by training, go beyond the "letter" of corporate governance and into its spirit in this monumental work, a sequel to their Power and Accountability (1991). Whether you are searching for sweeping theories, or simply want a place to look up key phrases from "agency costs" to "zones of ambiguity;" whether you want to travel through General Motors history or revisit Ross Perot's "pet rocks" quip, you will find what you are looking for here. "What is a corporation?" the authors begin. "It is the relationship among various participants in determining the direction and performance of corporations." Monks and Minow go on to define these participants as the shareholders, management, and board of diretors, devoting a section to each. Then comes an overview of corporate governance in over a dozen countries. One of the best features in the book is the series of Socratic questions that appear in italics throughout. One follows: "How do we create a governance and ownership structure that gives employees the optimal role, from the perspective of fairness (to maximize their contributions) and productivity (to maximize their future contributions?)" How indeed? Read this book to find out. Comment | | (Report this)