Corporate governance / edited by R. I. Tricker.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This text is part of a series which explores the history of business management. The volume topics range across the entire field of management studies from early managment thought through to post modern management theory. The editor provides an introductory analytical and historical review of the development of the subject, this is followed by a selection of key articles.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• The evolution of the company - how the idea has changed
• The modern corporation and private property
• Mergers and the market for corporate control
• The president and the board of directors
• Size and composition of corporate boards of directors: the organization and its environment
• Outside directors: more vulnerable than ever
• Audit committees: new corporate institution
• Theory of the firm: managerial behaviour, agency costs and ownership structure
• Transaction-cost economics: the governance of transactional relations
• Separation of ownership and control
• Who should control the corporation?
• Corporate governance and the board of directors: performance effects of changes in board composition
• The eclipse of the public corporation
• The corporate concept: redesigning a successful system
• A new compact for owners and directors, The Working Group on Corporate Governance
• Reckoning with the pension fund revolution
• The code of best practice
• Industrial groups as systems of contractual governance
• The corporate board: confronting the paradoxes
• What is a company for?
• Boards and company performance: research challenges the conventional wisdom
• Taking care of business: executive compensation in the United Kingdom
• Sources and uses of power in the boardroom
• The structure of share ownership and control: the potential for institutional investor activism
• Corporate governance
• Board guidelines on significant corporate governance issues: the General Motors case
• The defects of stakeholder theory
• Stakeholder governance: a cybernetic and property rights analysis
• Corporate governance: its scope, concerns and theories
• Sources and uses of power in the boardroom
• Principles for corporate governance in the Commonwealth, Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance
• Name index