Capital Markets and Corporate Governance [Hardcover]

Nicholas Dimsdale (Editor), Martha Prevezer (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 7, 1994 | ISBN-10: 0198287887 | ISBN-13: 978-0198287889

The debate over corporate governance, or how companies are controlled, has flourished vigorously for several years in the U.S. and has now spread to the U.K. This book collects papers by leading academics, bankers, and consultants which discuss major issues in corporate governance in the U.K., Germany, and Japan. It examines the role of shareholders, company boards, and managers under a market-based system as exists in the U.K. and the U.S. in comparison with the insider system found in Japan and, to a lesser extent, Germany. The issue of the effectiveness of the British system and how it might be made more efficient through increasing the accountability of company boards to shareholders, both directly and via the capital market, is extensively discussed.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Those with a serious interest in the relationship of the markets to corporate governance will find this book a quarry of useful data and anlysis, with a good comparative section on Germany and Japan" Jonathan Charkham.

`Capital Markets and Corporate Governance provides heavy-weight background reading for students in this field. It is concerned not so much with ethics but with the way in which the nature of capital markets (as the sources of investment) affects the way in which companies are run.' RSA Journal

`The collection will help to clarify the issues and provide business and financial historians with interesting hypotheses to examine in earlier periods ... There are ... enough papers of interest for the volume to be of value to business historians.' Business History

About the Author

Nicholas Dimsdale is at Queen's College, Oxford. Martha Prevezer is at London Business School.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 360 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (July 7, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198287887
• ISBN-13: 978-0198287889
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,047,135 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)