Corporate governance and firm organization
Subtitle: microfoundations and structural forms
By: edited by Anna Grandori.
Contributors: Grandori, Anna.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Corporate governance; Organizational behavior; Corporate culture
Description: Recent scandals involving large firms, in the USA and elsewhere have brought into focus the role and conduct of major multinationals. This text looks at issues surrounding the organisation of such companies, and the ways in which it impacts on corporate governance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Reframing corporate governance: behavioral assumptions, governance mechanisms, institutional dynamics -- Anna Grandori -- PART I. CONTINGENT STRUCTURES AND MULTIPLE RIGHTHOLDERS: CO-DESIGNING GOVERNANCE AND ORGANIZATION; title: Comparative institutional analysis of corporate governance -- Masahiko Aoki; title: The neglected benefits of the corporate form: entity status and the separation of asset ownership from control -- Margaret M. Blair; title: Governing with multiple principals: an empirically-based analysis of capital providers' preferences and superior governance structures -- Anna Grandori, -- Giuseppe Soda; title: Corporate governance in international joint ventures: toward a theory of partner preferences -- John Child, -- Suzana B. Rodrigues; title: Information intermediaries' incentives nad corporate strategy choices in the US -- Patrick Moreton, -- Todd Zenger -- PART II. BEYOND 'CONTROL AND ALIGNMENT': NON-ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES AND RELATIONAL GOVERNANCE; title: Economy, society, and worker representation in corporate governance -- Michael J. Piore; title: Corruption, fraud, and corporate governance: a report on Enron -- Paul Windolf; title: Corporate governance for crooks? The case for corporate virtue -- Margit Osterloh, -- Bruno S. Frey; title: Myopic opportunism and joint production: a relational approach to corporate governance -- Siegwart Lindenberg; title: The benefit of doubt: shadow norms and governance in trust-based organizations -- Joseph Lampel; title: The governance of innovation: the case of Rolls-Royce plc -- William Lazonick, -- Andrea Prencipe -- PART III. EXPLAINING DIFFERENCE AND CHANGE IN CORPORATE GOVERANCE SYSTEMS: BEYOND THE CONVERGENCE/DIVERGENCE DILEMMA; title: Explaining western securities markets -- Mark J. Roe; title: Convergence of corporate governance during the stock market buble: towards Anglo-American or European standards? -- Steen Thomsen; title: The worldwide diffusion of codes of good governance -- Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, -- Ruth V. Aguilera; title: From colleague to employee: determinants of changing career governance structures in elite law firms -- Ryon Lancaster, -- Brian Uzzi.