Corporate Governance and Accountability

by JillSolomon (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2010

  $4.36

  Corporate governance is concerned with how a company is directed and controlled and, in particular, with the role of the directorate and the need to ensure that there is an effective framework for accountability of directors to owners. Corporate Governance and Accountability, Third Edition provides readers with an up-to-date summary of the most recent developments in corporate governance. The book provides a full discussion of corporate governance issues and adopts a holistic approach to corporate governance. It provides a full discussion of corporate governance issues, taking the broadest view of the corporate governance agenda, including both theory and practice. The new edition is comprehensively updated and incorporates new codes of practice, policy documents and academic research.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.28

  Recent examples of massive corporate failures, such as Enron, have highlighted the need to reform corporate governance at an international level. The importance of effective corporate governance for corporate success, as well as for social welfare, cannot be overstated. Corporate Governance and Accountability has been written to provide readers with an up-to-date summary of both theory and practice in the area. This book includes features which: provide a full discussion of corporate governance issues taking the broadest view of the corporate governance agenda; draw on the extensive and original research carried out by the authors and demonstrates the close relationship between academic research and professional practice; contain numerous contemporary illustrations and case studies, including a chapter dedicated to the collapse of Enron; focus on the relevance of corporate governance reform throughout the world; highlight the importance of corporate social responsibility to companies and institutional investors from a corporate governance perspective; and include an appendix containing the Combined Code on Corporate Governance issued by the Financial Reporting Council in July 2003. Corporate Governance and Accountability has been written as a core textbook for students taking undergraduate and MBA courses in corporate governance and corporate social responsibility.