Corporate Governance Failures : : The Role of Institutional Investors in the Global Financial Crisis /

Corporate Governance Failures : : The Role of Institutional Investors in the Global Financial Crisis / / ed. by James P. Hawley, Andrew T. Williams, Shyam J. Kamath.

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Corporate governance, the internal policies and leadership that guide the actions of corporations, played a major part in the recent global financial crisis. While much blame has been targeted at compensation arrangements that rewarded extreme risk-taking but did not punish failure, the performance...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
MitwirkendeR:
Augar, Philip,
Dixon, Adam D.,
Dravis, Bruce,
Eichholtz, Piet,
Hawley, James P.,
Kamath, Shyam J.,
Knight, Eric R. W.,
Kok, Nils,
Lydenberg, Steve,
Mark, Robert,
Sheehan, Kym,
Taub, Jennifer S.,
Williams, Andrew T.,
Woods, Claire,
Yonder, Erkan,
HerausgeberIn:
Hawley, James P.,
Kamath, Shyam J.,
Williams, Andrew T.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 22 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Beyond Risk: Notes Toward a Responsible Investment Theory
  • Chapter 3. The Quality of Corporate Governance Within Financial Firms in Stressed Markets
  • Chapter 4. Chasing Alpha: An Ideological Explanation of the Catastrophic Failure in the U.K.'s Financial Services Industry
  • Chapter 5. Corporate Governance, Risk Analysis, and the Financial Crisis: Did Universal Owners Contribute to the Crisis?
  • Chapter 6. Great Expectations: Institutional Investors, Executive Remuneration, and ''Say on Pay''
  • Chapter 7. Against Stupidity, the Gods Themselves Contend in Vain: The Limits of Corporate Governance in Dealing with Asset Bubbles
  • Chapter 8. Real Estate, Governance, and the Global Economic Crisis
  • Chapter 9. The Sophisticated Investor and the Global Financial Crisis
  • Chapter 10. The Role of Investment Consultants in Transforming Pension Fund Decision Making: The Integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance Considerations into Corporate Valuation
  • Chapter 11. Funding Climate Change: How Pension Fund Fiduciary Duty Masks Trustee Inertia and Short-Termism
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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