1st Edition

The Practice of Corporate Governance

By Bob Tricker Copyright 2023
112 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

112 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

112 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

All corporate entities, from the largest multinational conglomerate to the smallest tennis club, need effective governance. Some features of corporate governance are basic, common to all corporate entities: every governing body needs to think strategically and set policies to supervise ongoing management activities to ensure the entity is financially viable and is achieving its objectives.... Read more

Acknowledgements. Prologue. Chapter 1 All Corporate Entities Need Corporate Governance. Chapter 2 Board Structure and Board Members. Chapter 3 The Role of the Board. Chapter 4 The Corporate Entity and Society. Chapter 5 Board Culture and the Challenge of the Chair. Chapter 6 The Effective Board. Chapter 7 The Effective Director. Chapter 8 Governance Issues in Different Types of Corporate Entities. Epilogue. Index.

Biography

Bob Tricker left school at 16, qualified as a Chartered Accountant, served as an officer in the Royal Navy, was Financial Controller of the British subsidiary of an American steel company, and then studied at Harvard and Oxford Universities. His research as a Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, produced the book Corporate Governance (1984), the first with that title. He has held professorial appointments at universities in Hong Kong, Melbourne, New York, Oxford, Sydney, and Warwick. He now lives in Devon, continues to write, and has been the Deputy Launch Authority for the Torbay lifeboat and crewed on Brixham’s heritage sailing trawlers.