This book examines the role of institutional shareholders in corporate governance, which is the system by which companies are directed and controlled. This si a subject of great concern to "public companies," their management, their shareholders and their employees. The recent concern about the effectiveness of corporate governance in a number of different countries has produced an outpouring of books and other publications including the Cadbury Committee Report which sought to address the principal problems arising in the UK. The unusual feature of this book is that it compares systems...