Employees and Corporate Governance
Title | Employees and Corporate Governance PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret M. Blair |
Publisher | Brookings Institution Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2010-12-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780815707073 |
Most scholarship on corporate governance in the last two decades has focused on the relationships between shareholders and managers or directors. Neglected in this vast literature is the role of employees in corporate governance. Yet "human capital," embodied in the employees, is rapidly becoming the most important source of value for corporations, and outside the United States, employees often have a significant formal role in corporate governance. This volume turns the spotlight on the neglected role of employees by analyzing many of the formal and informal ways that employees are actually involved in the governance of corporations, in U.S. firms and in large corporations in Germany and Japan. Examining laws and contexts, the essays focus on the framework for understanding employees' role in the firm and the implications for corporate governance. They explore how and why the special legal institutions in German and Japanese firms by which employees are formally involved in corporate governance came into being, and the impact these institutions have on firms and on their ability to compete. They also consider theoretical and empirical questions about employee share ownership. The result of a conference at Columbia University, the volume includes essays by Theodor Baums, Margaret M. Blair, David Charny, Greg Dow, Bernd Frick, Ronald J. Gilson, Jeffrey N. Gordon, Nobuhiro Hiwatari, Katharina Pistor, Louis Putterman, Edward B. Rock, Mark J. Roe, and Michael L. Wachter. Margaret M. Blair is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and author of Ownership and Control: Rethinking Corporate Governance for the Twenty-first Century (Brookings, 1995). Mark J. Roe, professor of business regulation and director of the Sloan Project on Corporate Governance at Columbia Law School, is the author of Strong Managers, Weak Owners: The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance (Princeton, 1996).
Employees and Corporate Governance
Title | Employees and Corporate Governance PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret M. Blair |
Publisher | |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Most scholarships on corporate governance in the 1980s and 1990s have focused on the relationship between shareholders and managers or directors. Yet human capital, embodied in the employees, is rapidly becoming the most important source of value for corporations: outside the US they often have a significant formal role in corporate governance.
The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Neil Gordon |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 1217 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0198743688 |
Corporate law and corporate governance have been at the forefront of regulatory activities across the world for several decades now, and are subject to increasing public attention following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance provides the global framework necessary to understand the aims and methods of legal research in this field. Written by leading scholars from around the world, the Handbook contains a rich variety of chapters that provide a comparative and functional overview of corporate governance. It opens with the central theoretical approaches and methodologies in corporate law scholarship in Part I, before examining core substantive topics in corporate law, including shareholder rights, takeovers and restructuring, and minority rights in Part II. Part III focuses on new challenges in the field, including conflicts between Western and Asian corporate governance environments, the rise of foreign ownership, and emerging markets. Enforcement issues are covered in Part IV, and Part V takes a broader approach, examining those areas of law and finance that are interwoven with corporate governance, including insolvency, taxation, and securities law as well as financial regulation. The Handbook is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary resource placing corporate law and governance in its wider context, and is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers in the field.
Varieties of Capitalism
Title | Varieties of Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | Peter A. Hall |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 557 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0199247749 |
Applying the new economics of organisation and relational theories of the firm to the problem of understanding cross-national variation in the political economy, this volume elaborates a new understanding of the institutional differences that characterise the 'varieties of capitalism' worldwide.
Corporate Governance and Whistleblowing
Title | Corporate Governance and Whistleblowing PDF eBook |
Author | Moeen Umar Cheema |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2021-05-03 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1000381749 |
Whistleblowing is often about disclosing wrongdoings by members of organisations to persons or organisations that may be able to effect action. Media would at times publish stories of whistleblowers who engage in ‘heroic’ acts of exposing wrongdoings at work, but the whistlebowers often face significant negative consequences of their whistleblowing efforts. This book examines effects of national and organisational cultures on the whistleblowing decisions of employees. The book provides empirical evidence of association between organisational culture and whistleblowing and there appears to be a lower likelihood of whistleblowing in organisations that focus more on the cultural dimensions of respect for people, innovation and stability. It also illustrates how remaining silent or blowing the whistle in response to observed wrongdoings affects employees’ key work-related attitudes. This book would interest those wish to gain better understanding of the relationship between culture and whistleblowing in organisations.
Comparative Corporate Governance
Title | Comparative Corporate Governance PDF eBook |
Author | Afra Afsharipour |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 2021-06-25 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1788975332 |
This research handbook provides a state-of-the-art perspective on how corporate governance differs between countries around the world. It covers highly topical issues including corporate purpose, corporate social responsibility and shareholder activism.
The Embedded Corporation
Title | The Embedded Corporation PDF eBook |
Author | Sanford M. Jacoby |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2007-07-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0691133840 |
The author traces the enduring diversity of corporate culture in Japan and the U.S. to national differences in economic history and social norms, and, paradoxically, to global competition itself.