Theories of Corporate Governance

How do we ensure corporations are run for the agreed purpose? What role can Boards of Directors play? Are CEOs too powerful and insufficiently accountable?

In the wake of the financial and corporate scandals of recent years, co porate governance increasingly is recognized as being at the heart of understanding how and why businesses are run as they are. But while there are diverse and well-established theories of corporate governance, they are rarely gathered in a coherent and comparative way.

This comprehensive reader brings together the most influential writing in the field, with editorial commentary, to provide a uniquely interdisciplinary resource for students and lecturers that underpins contemporary analysis of corporate governance.

Topics covered include:

• The separation of ownership and control
• How economic activity is organized through firms
• The managerial revolution in business
• Agency, stewardship and stakeholder theory
• Globalization and convergence
• The critique of shareholder value
• Post-Enron analysis.

Structured to provide an introduction and overview of corporate governance from the classical theories to contemporary controversies,this reader functions either as a stand-alone text, or as a companion to International Corporate Governance, a textbook also authored by Thomas Clarke. Providing a defining insight into this fastemerging, and highly controversial field, this is the definitive resource for all those seeking to understand the
contemporary corporation.

Thomas Clarke is Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance and Professor of Management at the University of Technology, Sydney.

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Click here to read Sir Adrian Cadbury's preface to Theories of Corporate Governance and the table of contents >>

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"It is a pleasure to be asked to contribute a preface to this magisterial work. Its importance and usefulness lie in the way in which Professor Clarke has selected his material to present a comprehensive survey of the theoretical foundations on which the practice of corporate governance has been, if not always consciously, based. He has done this by allowing those who have played a key part in the thinking on corporate governance to have their say. More than that his excellent Introduction explains how the different governance theories relate to each other and how they have contributed to the development of corporate governance in practice." — Sir Adrian Cadbury Review of Thomas Clarke's book on post-Enron corporate governance by Eugenio Simone de Nardis CERADI, Luiss Guido Carli University Rome, Italy (in Italian)

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