1st Edition

Corporate Governance in Action Regulators, Market Actors and Scrutinizers

Edited By Lars Engwall Copyright 2018
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

Over time we have seen large corporations, in many cases with multinational operations, begin to play an increasingly significant role in modern society. This in turn has put the governance of these corporations into focus. Against this background, Corporate Governance in Action helps provide a framework for examining corporate governance through a focus provided by external pressures on... Read more

Chapter One: Resituating Corporate Governance



Lars Engwall, Jaan Grünberg, Josef Pallas, Kerstin Sahlin, Linda Wedlin, Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Helena Buhr, Katarina Buhr, Magnus Frostenson, Ingemund Hägg, Laurence Romani, Lars Strannegård and Karolina Windell





Chapter Two: A Field Approach to Corporate Governance



Lars Engwall, Jaan Grünberg, Josef Pallas, Kerstin Sahlin, Linda Wedlin, Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Helena Buhr, Katarina Buhr, Magnus Frostenson, Ingemund Hägg, Laurence Romani, Lars Strannegård and Karolina Windell





Chapter Three: Regulators



Linda Wedlin, Katarina Buhr, and Kerstin Sahlin





Chapter Four: Market Actors



Jaan Grünberg and Ingemund Hägg





Chapter Five: Scrutinizers: NGOs



Magnus Frostenson, Laurence Romani, and Karolina Windell





 



Chapter Six: Scrutinizers: Media



Helena Buhr, Stefan Arora-Jonsson and Josef Pallas





Chapter Seven: Governance Relations



Lars Engwall, Jaan Grünberg, Josef Pallas, Kerstin Sahlin, Linda Wedlin, Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Helena Buhr, Katarina Buhr, Magnus Frostenson, Ingemund Hägg, Laurence Romani, Lars Strannegård and Karolina Windell





Chapter Eight: Conclusions



Lars Engwall, Jaan Grünberg, Josef Pallas, Kerstin Sahlin, Linda Wedlin, Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Helena Buhr, Katarina Buhr, Magnus Frostenson, Ingemund Hägg, Laurence Romani, Lars Strannegård and Karolina Windell



Biography

Lars Engwall is Professor Emeritus of management at Uppsala University, Sweden. His research has been directed towards institutional change as well as the production and diffusion of management knowledge. Since the 1960s he has continuously published his research in monographs, journal articles and edited books. He is an elected member of a number of learned societies, and has received honorary degrees from Åbo Akademi University and the Stockholm School of Economics.