In the wake of the recent global financial collapse the timely new edition of this successful text provides students and business professionals with a welcome update of the key issues facing managers, boards of directors, investors, and shareholders. In addition to its authoritative overview of the history, the myth and the reality of corporate governance, this new edition has been updated to include: · analysis of the financial crisis; the reasons for the global scale of the recession the failure of international risk management An overview of corporate governance guidelines and codes of practice; new cases. Once again in the new edition of their textbook, Robert A. G. Monks and Nell Minow show clearly the role of corporate governance in making sure the right questions are asked and the necessary checks and balances in place to protect the long-term, sustainable value of the enterprise. Features 18 case studies of institutions and corporations in crisis, and analyses the reasons for their fall (Cases include Lehman Brothers, General Motors, American Express, Time Warner, IBM and Premier Oil.
Book Details:
- Author: Robert A. G. Monks
- ISBN: 9780470972595
- Year Published: 2011
- Pages: 542
- BISAC: BUS104000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Corporate Governance
About the Book and Topic:
In the wake of the recent global financial collapse the timely new edition of this successful text provides students and business professionals with a welcome update of the key issues facing managers, boards of directors, investors, and shareholders. In addition to its authoritative overview of the history, the myth and the reality of corporate governance, this new edition has been updated to include: · analysis of the financial crisis; the reasons for the global scale of the recession the failure of international risk management An overview of corporate governance guidelines and codes of practice; new cases. Once again in the new edition of their textbook, Robert A. G. Monks and Nell Minow show clearly the role of corporate governance in making sure the right questions are asked and the necessary checks and balances in place to protect the long-term, sustainable value of the enterprise. Features 18 case studies of institutions and corporations in crisis, and analyses the reasons for their fall (Cases include Lehman Brothers, General Motors, American Express, Time Warner, IBM and Premier Oil.
Corporate governance and business ethics are areas of rapidly growing importance which have been offered on graduate core modules of masters programmes since the 1990s and is now a standard part of the business school curriculum. Corporate Governance is concerned with the complex and changing relationships between business corporations, their various stakeholders, and the societies within which they operate. The leading programmes are fully international in scope, covering European, American and Asian systems of corporate governance and adopting a cross-cultural perspective. A key feature of the practice of corporate governance is that it brings together both economic and moral considerations, and this is reflected in a strongly interdisciplinary approach. While the main focus of the programmes is on the social, political, legal and moral aspects of how businesses are governed, they are also concerned with issues of business performance and the operation of financial markets. Having risen to prominence in the era of the Enron scandal, this is once again a hot area in the wake of the global financial crisis.
AUTHOR PLATFORMS: · MAJOR INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS The authors have a high profile in corporate governance · ADOPTION BASE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC: this textbook has established adoption bases in US and Europe · HIGHLY TOPICAL SUBJECT: Having achieved prominence during the era of Enron and similar scandals, the topic of corporate governance is again at the forefront in the wake of the financial crisis · ACTIVE WEB PRESENCE AND SPEAKING PLATFORMS: Monks and Minow both have active blog sites and speaking engagements · STRONG SELLER FOR WILEY MARKETING: Author marketing plan attached UNIQUE HOOK: . Bob Monks is a leading world expert on Corporate Governance, having started the debate about it in the 1990s. He and Nell Minow are frequent speakers on platforms both in the US and UK. Their text on Corporate governance has sold successfully both in the US and the rest of the world through four editions.
About the Author
Robert A. G. Monks is one of the founders of the field of corporate governance. He is the author of Corpocracy and The New Global Investors, and with Nell Minow, Watching the Watchers, Corporate Governance and Power & Accountability. Nell Minow is Editor of The Corporate Library, an independent research firm that rates boards of directors of public companies and compiles research, study and critical thinking about corporate governance and movie and cultural critic for Beliefnet.com and radio stations across the country. She frequently comments on the financial markets in the press and on television. Robert A.G. Monks and Nell Minow are founders of The Corporate Library, the leading independent source for U.S. corporate governance and executive & director compensation information and analysis. Formerly principals of the Lens Fund and officers of the Institutional Shareholder Services, Monks & Minow have also collaborated on many books and press articles.