Enhancing firm sustainability through governance : the relational corporate governance approach / Francesco de Zwart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Zwart, Francesco, author.

Series:

Corporations, globalisation, and the law.

Corporations, Globalisation and the Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporate governance.

Social responsibility of business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (463 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Enhancing Firm Sustainability Through Governance presents a fresh perspective on corporate governance and how the relationship between governance mechanisms, processes and variables should be understood through a new unifying theory: the relational corporate governance approach. Francesco de Zwart examines significant areas of governance study and practice to illustrate how the most established governance mechanisms, processes and variables affect each other and the governance and management structures within a company. The relational corporate governance approach acts as a tool for analysing the governance health of individual companies and suggests the actions required to remedy sub-optimal governance and management arrangements. A wide selection of articles, empirical studies and literature have been translated into an original and understandable theory which complements and enhances the explanatory power of existing law and economics models of the firm. This interdisciplinary book will interest scholars and researchers in the fields of corporate law, economics, accounting, management and, more specifically, governance and regulation. Policymakers and practitioners involved in corporate governance will benefit from the discerning insight into managerial design and adoption, decision-making, monitoring and reporting structures and other processes within the corporation.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Table of cases""; ""Table of statutes""; ""Table of government and regulatory body reports, codes, rules and publications""; ""1. The challenge of corporate governance""; ""2. The framework of the relational corporate governance approach""; ""3. Governance variables in practice""; ""4. Key Field No 1: The application of the principal theories of the firm to the relational approach""; ""5. Key Field No 2: 'Autopsies' of the Enron and Hastie corporate collapses""

""6. Key Field No 3: Comparative corporate governance codes""""7. Empirical studies Key Field No 4 (Part 1): National shareholder protection regime and Board factors I""; ""8. Empirical studies Key Field No 4 (Part 2): Board factors II and other firm-specific variables""; ""9. Empirical studies Key Field No 4 (Part 3): Board and audit committee factors and earnings manipulation""; ""10. Empirical studies Key Field No 4 (Part 4): 'Good' corporate governance and director, CEO and management compensation""; ""11. Relational approach conclusions""; ""Appendix 1: Glossary of governance variables""

""Appendix 2: Glossary of relationalapproach terms and components""""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78471-552-2