This new edition offers an indispensable guide to the key concepts of corporate governance every student and business professional should know. It includes more exercises and student questions, penetrating analysis of the latest examples of corporate failure and controversy, and the lively "cases in point" which have characterized previous editions. It provides an authoritative overview, offering the latest codes of practice, new cases of current interest; and a web link to The Corporate Library, the leading independent research firm in the field.
1. What is a Corporation?.
2. Shareholders: Ownership.
3. Directors: Monitoring.
4. Management: Performance.
5. International Corporate Governance.
6. Case Studies: Corporations in Crisis.