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Contemporary Issues in International Corporate Governance

Contemporary Issues in International Corporate Governance

Editor: Suzanne Young
ISBN: 9780734610713 / 978-0-7346-1071-3
Price: A$59.95 NZ$$71.95 US$49.95
Binding: Softcover
Trim: 200 x 250 mm   236 pp 
Copyright: 2009

There has never been a better time for an insightful look at international corporate governance. This rather timely, up-to-date and authoritative text is based on the latest regional and international research, with contributions coming from a hand-picked team of experts. This exciting edited text explores and analyses the issues, trends and challenges for corporate governance in the future as well as today.

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Introduction - A multi-theoretical approach to international corporate governance

Chapter 1 - Anglo based governance - rules versus flexibility

Chapter 2 - The board and the CEO—What is their relationship?

Chapter 3 - From boards as value assemblers to value creators

Chapter 4 - Sensitivity & sensemaking: Rethinking CEO reward determination

Chapter 5 - Theorising the links between HRM, governance and corporate reputations

Chapter 6 - The role, diffusion and effectiveness of good governance codes

Chapter 7 - Ethics, good governance and whistleblowing

Chapter 8 - The transformation of socially responsible investment

Chapter 9 - Investor relations

Chapter 10 - Corporate governance in India: A confluence of ethos and change

Chapter 11 - Corporate governance in Chinese firms

Chapter 12 - Challenging the inevitability of the globalization of corporate governance



Editor: Suzanne Young BComm (Melb) MBA (Deakin) PhD (Deakin), is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Management at LaTrobe University, Melbourne. She is also the Director of LaTrobe’s Executive Education program. Suzanne lectures and researches in corporate governance, corporate responsibility and organisational behaviour, and has extensive international research and teaching experience, having taught extensively in international programs in Vietnam, Mongolia, Singapore and Malaysia.

Suzanne’s research has been presented at national conferences in the UK, Europe and America, and she has published in leading Australian and international journals. Her research interests are in employee relations, outsourcing, public sector management, corporate governance and corporate responsibility, and corporate governance and sustainability.

Contributors:

Dr Vijaya Thyil, Senior Lecturer, GSM, LaTrobe University
Dr Peter Waring, Deputy CEO & Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle, Singapore
Assistant Professor Pingying Zhang, University of North Florida, USA
Assistant Professor Wim Voordeckers, Hasselt University, Belgium
Assistant Professor Jonas Gabrielsson, CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden
Professor Morten Huse, Norwegian School of Management BI, Norway
Dr Alessandra Capezio, Lecturer, Australian National University
Associate Professor John Shields, University of Sydney
Professor Graeme Martin, Glasgow University, UK
Professor Jim McGoldrick, Chairman, Fife Health Board, UK
Professor Alessandro Zattoni, Parthenope University of Naples and
SDA Bocconi School of Business, Italy
Dr Francesca Cuomo, Parthenope University of Naples, Italy
Dr Peter Bowden, Honanry Research Associate, Department of
Philosophy, University of Sydney
Dr Vanya Smythe, Partner and Trainer, Magellan Ethics Consulting
Dr Jill Solomon, Reader in Finance, Cardiff University, UK
Professor Claire Marston, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK
Dr Christoph Lattemann, Jr Professor, Potsdam University, Germany
Professor Thomas Clarke, Director, Centre for Corporate
Governance, University of Technology Sydney