Author: Professor Jan Kooima
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: governance, governing
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2003-04-14
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0761940367
ISBN-13: 9780761940364

Text advances a comprehensive framework, seeking to capture the different elements, modes and orders of governing and governance today. The author demonstrates a socio-political perspective in understanding contemporary forms of governing, governance and governability. For students and academics in social and political sciences. Softcover, hardcover available.

Author: Oliver E. Williamson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: governance, mechanisms
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1999-03-18
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0195132602
ISBN-13: 9780195132601

This book brings together in one place the work of one of our most respected economic theorists on a field in which he has played a large part in originating: the New Institutional Economics. Transaction cost economics, which studies the governance of contractual relations, is the branch of the New Institutional Economics with which Oliver Williamson is especially associated. Transaction cost economics has had a pervasive influence on current economic thought about how and why institutions function as they do, and it has become a practical framework for research in organizations by represen

Author: George Dallas
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: risk, governance
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2004-01-21
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0071429549
ISBN-13: 9780071429542

An analytical handbook for investors, managers, directors and stakeholders Effective corporate governance has long been viewed as essential for healthy capital markets. Careless and inefficient governance practices, however, have thrust the governance debate from the shadows to the forefront, and corporate governance can now be recognized as a stand-alone risk factor. Many market participants now question whether true self-governance is possible or even realistic in today’s era of razor-thin profit margins and bloated executive paychecks. This all-encompassing book compiled and

Author: Benton E. Gup
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: banking, governance, corporate
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-11
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 1845429400
ISBN-13: 9781845429409

Recent corporate scandals, together with the effects of globalization, have led to an increasing interest in corporate governance issues. Little attention has been paid, however, to international laws and recommendations dealing with corporate governance in banking from a global perspective. This impressive international set of expert contributors - academics, practitioners and regulators - remedy the lack of attention by examining the various issues and concerns of this important topic.The regulation of corporate banking and accounting is increasingly promoted through various international bo

Author: Oliver E. Williamson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: governance, mechanisms
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1996-02-29
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0195078241
ISBN-13: 9780195078244

This book brings together in one place the work of one of our most respected economic theorists, on a field in which he has played a large part in originating: the New Institutional Economics. Transaction cost economics, which studies the governance of contractual relations, is the branch of the New Institutional Economics with which Oliver Williamson is especially associated.Transaction cost economics takes issue with one of the fundamental building blocks in microeconomics: the theory of the firm. Whereas orthodox economics describes the firm in technological terms, as a production function,

Author: Christine Mallin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: governance, corporate
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2010-02-22
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0199566453
ISBN-13: 9780199566457

Known for its international approach to corporate governance and its accessible nature, Corporate Governance has established itself as an invaluable text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Chris Mallin introduces the reader to the theories and development of corporate governance, before looking at owners and stakeholders and directors, all the time illustrating the theory with examples from the press and case studies. Corporate Governance also features a comprehensive section on international governance, including an examination of governance issues in China, India and Brazi

Author: Kesho Prasad
Publisher: Prentice-Hall of India Pvt.Ltd
Keywords: governance, corporate
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2006-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8120329783
ISBN-13: 9788120329782