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 flowing from this
- the profound consequences of climate change and the urgent need for corporations to respond with the commitment to sustainable value creation
Important elements of the work include:
- contemporary governance failures including BP, VW, Boeing, GM/Tesla, Apple, Purdue Pharma, and Theranos;
- the ongoing vitality of the diversity of corporate governance across the world;
- digital disruption in capital markets and initiatives to build long-term investment;
- the universal impact of financialization and resulting increasing inequality;
- the essential logic of corporate governance and corporate sustainability.
The textbook contains a wealth of pedagogical material to guide the reader through this complex subject, with student questions to help with assessments and new companion website. There are 14 new forensic case analyses critically scrutinizing governance failures.
International Corporate Governance is an essential text for those studying corporate governance at the advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, or executive level.
Table of Contents:
Forword
Preface
- Cycles of Governance
- Boards and Directors: The Political Mechanisms of Corporate Governance
- Finance, Law, and Markets: The Institutional Elements of Corporate Governance
- Anglo-American Corporate Governance
- European Corporate Governance
- Asia Pacific Corporate Governance
- The Globalization of Corporate Governance
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Corporate Governance and Climate Change
- Corporate Sustainability
Case Studies: Corporate Governance Crisis
Global Financial Crisis Cases (2007-2009)
- Lehman Brothers
- RBS
- UBS
- Iceland
- Satyam
- Olympus
- Renault-Nissan
- BP
- VW
- Boeing
- GM/Tesla
- Apple
- Purdue Pharma
- Theranos
Asia-Pacific Cases (2009-2022)
Sustainability Cases (2010-2022)
Public Health Cases (2003-2022)
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).
