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Book SynopsisCorporate governance developed to maintain the accountability, stability, and performance of corporations. It has evolved to concern not just the financial health of the company, but its social and environmental impact. There is considerable international institutional diversity in corporate governance. The role and significance of market institutions varies among different governance systems.
This work provides a concise insight into the defining impulses of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century corporate governance evolving through a series of competing epoch-making paradigmatic contests. The present paradigm highlights a shift towards corporate sustainability involving the corporate delivery of long-term value in financial, social, environmental, and ethical terms. In analysing the purpose of the company and the definition of value creation, the hegemony of agency theory and shareholder primacy is challenged. More expansive theoretical explanations are considered w
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"This work is a refreshing and concise account of the development of corporate governance. It offers a fascinating and coherent explanation of the complexities of governance, and a robust critique of dominant ideologies. The book highlights the imperative of the transformation from maximising shareholder value to sustainable value creation." Wafa Khlif, University of Toulouse Business School, France
Table of Contents1. Introduction to Corporate Governance 2. International Diversity of Modes of Corporate Governance 3. Convergence and Divergence of International Corporate Governance Institutions 4. Shareholder Primacy: The End of a Hegemony? 5. The Social Licence to Operate: Redefining Purpose and Fiduciary Duty 6. Contemporary Challenges for Corporate Governance: Technological Transformation and Climate Change
