Product Description

Comprehensive and up-to-date, this important textbook, packed with topical case studies and excellent illustrative material that guides readers through this complex subject, analyzes the escalating crisis in corporate governance and the growing interest in its reform across the globe.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #281975 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Review

Professor Clarke sets out to cover every aspect of the theory and practice of corporate governance across the world and succeeds in doing so, adding a set of relevant and riveting case studies for good measure. Taking account of the astonishing rapidity of developments in this field internationally, his book represents a remarkable achievement… It will set a benchmark against which to evaluate and measure progress in the field of corporate governance…

From the Foreword by Sir Adrian Cadbury

Professor Clarke has met the significant challenge of offering a substantial overview of the continually changing landscape of corporate governance. Integrating theory and practice, the book's coverage is both comprehensive and authoritative, providing an essential reference point for students, scholars and practitioners.

Laura F Spira, Professor of Corporate Governance, Oxford Brookes University Business School

How corporations answer calls by shareholders, stakeholders, and governments to be more responsive to ambient societies (sometimes referred to as "horizontal corporate governance") has to be a central theme in any leading edge corporate governance text. This book does much better than any other in discussing the full range of issues in corporate governance today and in circling the globe to describe various governance approaches and devices.

Douglas M. Branson,W. Edward Sell Chair in Business Law University of Pittsburgh, USA, Author of No Seat at The Table - How Law and Governance Keep Women Out of the Boardroom (2007)

From the Back Cover

International Corporate Governance analyses the escalating crisis in corporate governance, and the growing interest in corporate governance reform around the world. This important new textbook:

• investigates the reasons for the failure of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Parmalat and other major international corporations;
• examines the role of international standards of corporate governance, with the intervention of the OECD, World Bank and IMF;
• explores the continuing cultural diversity in corporate and institutional forms in the United States and United Kingdom, Europe and Asia Pacific.

The text considers the development of the institutional elements of corporate governance with the separation of ownership and control and the diffusion of share ownership; and records the transformation of corporate governance in the main markets of the world, the further internationalisation of financial markets and the increasing salience of institutional share ownership. Illustrated with a wealth of up to the minute case studies and excellent illustrative material to guide the student reader through this complex subject, International Corporate Governance will be an essential text for anybody studying corporate governance today.

About the Author

Thomas Clarke is Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance and Professor of Management at the University of Technology, Sydney. Formerly DBM Professor of Corporate Governance at Leeds Business School and Visiting Professor at CEIBS, Shanghai, he was a member of the RSA Tomorrow’s Company Inquiry that influenced the review of UK company law. At the OECD in Paris he helped develop the international corporate governance code adopted by governments throughout the world.

Customer Reviews

Excellent complement to "Theories"
Taken with the companion volume -- Theories of Corporate Governance - this book constitutes an excellent resource for undergraduate postgraduate and professional courses in corporate governance. The author is to be congratulated.