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082			_a658.42 _bTHE
245			_aTheories of corporate governance : the philosophical foundations of corporate governance
260			_aLondon ; New York : _bRoutledge, _c2004.
300			_axii, 370 p.: _billustrations.
500			_aIncluding Index
505			_aPart 1: Economic foundations -- 1.1. The managerial revolution in American business -- 1.2. The impact of the corporation on classical economic theory -- Part 2: Agency theory -- 2.1. Theory of the firm: managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure -- 2.2. Separation of ownership and control -- 2.3. Agency theory: an assessment and review -- Part 3: Managerial hegemony -- 3.1. Directors: myth and reality -- 3.2. Pawns or potentates: the reality of America's corporate boards -- Part 4: Stewardship theory -- 4.1. Toward a stewardship theory of management -- Part 5. External pressures -- 5.1. The resource dependence role of corporate directors: strategic adaptation of board composition in response to environmental change -- 5.2. Institutional and strategic choice perspectives on board involvement in strategic decision process -- 5.3. A general theory of network governance: exchange conditions and social mechanisms -- Part 6: Stakeholder theory -- 6.1. Ownership and control: rethinking corporate governance for the twenty-first century -- 6.2. The stakeholder corporation: a business philosophy for the information age -- Part 7: Theories of convergence -- 7.1. Corporate leadership in globalizing equity market -- 7.2. Corporate governance and blobalization: is there convergence across countries -- 7.3. Capital unbound? the transformation of European corporate governance -- 7.4. The very uncertain prospects of 'global' convergence in corporate governance -- Part 8: Crtitique of squareholder value -- 8.1. Maximizing shareholder value: a new ideology for corporate governance -- 8.2. Corporate governance, property and democracy: a conceptual critique of shareholder ideology -- Part 9: Post-Enron theories -- 9.1. What Enron means for the management and control of the modern business corporation: some initial reflections -- 9.2. What caused Enron? a capsule social economic history of the 1990s.
520			_aProviding a grounding in the theories that underpin analysis of corporate governance, this book includes topics such as the origins of modern business enterprise, risk management, the globalisation of corporations and the impact of corporate objectives onstakeholders.
650			_aCorporate governance.
650			_aDirectors of corporations.
650			_aIndustrial management.
650			_aBusiness Management.
650			_aCorporate Governance - United States.
650			_aCompany directors - United States.
700			_aClarke, Thomas (Editor)
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