3rd Edition

International Corporate Governance

By Thomas Clarke Copyright 2024
818 Pages 114 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

818 Pages 114 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

818 Pages 114 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Thomas Clarke’s International Corporate Governance offers a panoramic guide to corporate governance and examines the recurring crises in governance and the reform around the world. This is a popular classic book but significant changes have been made to this new edition to take account of: the continuing impact of the global financial crisis and the wave of regulation development... Read more

Table of Contents:

Forword

Preface

  1. Cycles of Governance
  2. Boards and Directors: The Political Mechanisms of Corporate Governance
  3. Finance, Law, and Markets: The Institutional Elements of Corporate Governance
  4. Anglo-American Corporate Governance
  5. European Corporate Governance
  6. Asia Pacific Corporate Governance
  7. The Globalization of Corporate Governance
  8. Corporate Social Responsibility
  9. Corporate Governance and Climate Change
  10. Corporate Sustainability

Case Studies: Corporate Governance Crisis

Global Financial Crisis Cases (2007-2009)

  1. Lehman Brothers
  2. RBS
  3. UBS
  4. Iceland
  5. Asia-Pacific Cases (2009-2022)

  6. Satyam
  7. Olympus
  8. Renault-Nissan
  9. Sustainability Cases (2010-2022)

  10. BP
  11. VW
  12. Boeing
  13. GM/Tesla
  14. Apple
  15. Public Health Cases (2003-2022)

  16. Purdue Pharma
  17. Theranos

Biography

Thomas Clarke is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and formerly Professor of Management at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), and at UTS Sydney. Visiting Professor at the University of Paris, University of Geneva, Toulouse Business School, FGV in Brazil, and UNAM in Mexico. He was a member of the RSA Tomorrow’s Company Inquiry that influenced the review of UK Company Law, and at the OECD in Paris helped develop the corporate governance code adopted by governments throughout the world. In 2016 he was awarded the inaugural Sir Adrian Cadbury Scholarship by the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN).