International Corporate Governance

by Thomas Clarke

Overview

Thomas Clarke’s International Corporate Governance offers a panoramic guide to corporate governance and examines the recurring crises in governance and the reform around the world.

This is a popular classic book but significant changes have been made to this new edition to take account of:

• the continuing impact of the global financial crisis and the wave of regulation development flowing from this
• the profound consequences of climate change and the urgent need for corporations to respond with the commitment to sustainable value creation

Important elements of the work include:

• contemporary governance failures including BP, VW, Boeing, GM/Tesla, Apple, Purdue Pharma, and Theranos;
• the ongoing vitality of the diversity of corporate governance across the world;
• digital disruption in capital markets and initiatives to build long-term investment;
• the universal impact of financialization and resulting increasing inequality;
• the essential logic of corporate governance and corporate sustainability.

The textbook contains a wealth of pedagogical material to guide the reader through this complex subject, with student questions to help with assessments and new companion website. There are 14 new forensic case analyses critically scrutinizing governance failures.

International Corporate Governance is an essential text for those studying corporate governance at the advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, or executive level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032019376
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/29/2023
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	818
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Thomas Clarke is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and formerly Professor of Management at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), and at UTS Sydney. Visiting Professor at the University of Paris, University of Geneva, Toulouse Business School, FGV in Brazil, and UNAM in Mexico. He was a member of the RSA Tomorrow’s Company Inquiry that influenced the review of UK Company Law, and at the OECD in Paris helped develop the corporate governance code adopted by governments throughout the world. In 2016 he was awarded the inaugural Sir Adrian Cadbury Scholarship by the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN).

Table of Contents

Table of Contents:

Forword

Preface

1. Cycles of Governance
2. Boards and Directors: The Political Mechanisms of Corporate Governance
3. Finance, Law, and Markets: The Institutional Elements of Corporate Governance
4. Anglo-American Corporate Governance
5. European Corporate Governance
6. Asia Pacific Corporate Governance
7. The Globalization of Corporate Governance
8. Corporate Social Responsibility
9. Corporate Governance and Climate Change
10. Corporate Sustainability

Case Studies: Corporate Governance Crisis

Global Financial Crisis Cases (2007-2009)

1. Lehman Brothers
2. RBS
3. UBS
4. Iceland

Asia-Pacific Cases (2009-2022)

5. Satyam
6. Olympus
7. Renault-Nissan

Sustainability Cases (2010-2022)

8. BP
9. VW
10. Boeing
11. GM/Tesla
12. Apple

Public Health Cases (2003-2022)

13. Purdue Pharma
14. Theranos

Editorial Reviews

'Professor Clarke sets out to cover every aspect of the theory and practice of corporate governance across the world and succeeds in doing so, adding a set of relevant and riveting case studies for good measure. Taking account of the astonishing rapidity of developments in this field internationally, his book represents a remarkable achievement... It will set a benchmark against which to evaluate and measure progress in the field of corporate governance' From the foreword by Sir Adrian Cadbury.

'Professor Clarke has met the significant challenge of offering a substantial overview of the continually changing landscape of corporate governance. Integrating theory and practice, the book's coverage is both comprehensive and authoritative, providing an essential reference point for students, scholars and practitioners' Laura F. Spira, Professor of Corporate Governance, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

'How corporations answer calls by shareholders, stakeholders, and governments to be more responsive to ambient societies has to be a central theme in any leading edge corporate governance text. This book does much better than any other in discussing the full range of issues in corporate governance today and in circling the globe to describe the various governance approaches and devices' Douglas M. Branson, W. Edward Sell Chair in Business Law, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

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