"CORPORATE GOVERNANCE" 2nd EDITION
Published by Blackwell Publishing Summer 2001
 

Description from Blackwell Publishers:

This book provides a comprehensive look at the history, the myth, the reality, and the future of corporate governance issues. It explains how roles of the shareholders, managers and directors have been transformed by the abuses and excesses of the takeover era, the exponential growth of the institutional investor, and the ability of shareholders to find each other on the internet.

The perennial textbook on corporate governance, this new second edition includes:

  • Complete reworking of the international chapter, including excerpts from OECD, Hemphill, Mckenzie, and World Bank reports plus comparisons of international corporate governance best practices.
  • Excerpts from NACD reports on board professionalism and CEO succession.
  • New in-depth case studies on Stone and Webster and waste management.
  • Impact of the internet on shareholder communications and disclosure.
  • New cases - Daimler-Benz; Dow-Jones; Saatchi & Saatchi; Furr's/Luby's; Mirror; Brazil; Political contributions (US/UK).
  • Updated cases - Inc General Motors; Sears.

Including numerous case studies and supplementary online material, this book is an indispensable resource for students of business, corporate finance, law, and public policy.

Author Description:

Robert A.G. Monks and Nell Minow are respectively Founder and Editor of The Corporate Library (www.thecorporatelibrary.com), the foremost online resource on global corporate governance. Bob Monks is one of the best known figures in corporate governance, having made his name through attacking the 'corporate establishment'. He has been director of a number of major US companies and in 1984 was selected by Ronald Reagan to head up the Labor Department's pensions and welfare benefits office.

Monks also founded the largest proxy advisory service in the world, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and the Lens Fund, which was designed to be 'a vehicle for collective action'. Minow served as President of ISS and as a principal of Lens, whose aim was to invest in large companies that have a defensive corporate culture of 'management incompetence' and a corporate governance structure that impeded shareholder value. Lens target companies includeds Sears, Chrysler, Kodak, and American Express.

Monks and Minow have also collaborated on two other books Power and Accountability (1991) and Watching the Watchers (Blackwell Business, 1996).

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