U.S. Corporate Governance / / ed. by Stuart Gillan, Donald Chew.
Corporate governance constitutes the internal and external institutions, markets, policies, and processes designed to help companies maximize their efficiency and value. In this collection of classic and current articles from the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, thought leaders such as Michael...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Columbia Business School Publishing
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 25 illus; 20 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Broad Perspectives on Corporate Governance
- 1. Value Maximization, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate Objective Function
- 2. The State of U.S. Corporate Governance: What's Right and What's Wrong?
- 3. U.S. Corporate Governance: Accomplishments and Failings: A Discussion with Michael Jensen and Robert Monks
- Part II: Internal Governance: Boards and Executive Compensation
- 4. The Director's New Clothes (or, The Myth of Corporate Accountability)
- 5. Best Practices in Corporate Governance: What Two Decades of Research Reveals /
- 6. Pay without Performance: Overview of the Issues
- 7. Is U.S. CEO Compensation Broken?
- Part III: External Governance: Ownership Structure
- 8. Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting a Stop to the Earnings Game
- 9. Identifying and Attracting the "Right" Investors: Evidence on the Behavior of Institutional Investors
- 10. U.S. Family- Run Companies- They May Be Better Than You Th ink
- 11. The Evolution of Shareholder Activism in the United States
- Part IV: External Governance: The Market for Corporate Control
- 12. Corporate Control and the Politics of Finance
- 13. Where M&A Pays and Where It Strays: Survey of the Research
- 14. 14. Private Equity, Corporate Governance, and the Reinvention of the Market for Corporate Control
- About the Contributors
- Index