Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Corporate Governance

Activist investors have sent shockwaves through corporations in recent years, personally targeting directors and executives at some of the world's largest companies. No longer satisfied with operating on the fringes of business, they are now a firm fixture in the boardroom.

Up to a quarter of public companies could be targeted by activist campaigns in the coming years, with directors and executives at those corporations threatened with losing their jobs. The trend, which began in corporate America, has spread to the UK, Europe and Asia, taking in several high profile...

Strategic Financial Management Casebook strategically uses integrative case studies--cases that do not emphasize specific subjects such as capital budgeting or value based management--to provide a framework for understanding strategic financial management. By featuring holistic presentations, the book puts readers into the shoes of those responsible for the world's largest wealth creators. It covers strategies of growth, mergers and acquisitions, financial performance analysis over the past decade, wealth created in terms of stock returns since its listing in stock market,...

In The Activist Director, attorney Ira M. Millstein looks back at fifty years...

Corporate governance has become one of the most important issues on the business agenda, with incalculable political and social consequences both domestically and globally. The corporate objective, or for whose interests should a company be run, remains the fundamental question at the heart of corporate governance.

This book explores different approaches to the corporate objective and then goes on to discuss these approaches in the context of China due to its importance in the global economic and political arena. The book puts forward a comparative study of shareholder rights in the...

The current degradation of sovereign balance sheets raises very real concerns about how sovereign creditworthiness is measured by credit rating agencies. Given the disastrous economic and social effects of any downgrade, the book offers an alternative and calls for more transparency about the quantitative measures used in calibrating the rating process and how sovereign ratings are validated. It argues that oversight is required and procedures improved, including subjecting methodologies of assessing default to more standardization and monitoring.

Sovereign Credit Rating...