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Elgar Encyclopedia of Corporate Governance

Edited by: Thomas Clarke, Wafa Khlif, Coral Ingley

ISBN13: 9781839107054
Published: October 2024
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £230.00



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With 163 authoritative entries providing definitive explanations and critiques of the fundamental principles and practices of corporate governance, this timely Encyclopedia is a comprehensive overview of the economic, political, social, legal and environmental impacts of corporations across the globe.

Bringing together almost 100 leading experts, the Encyclopedia addresses the meaning and purpose of corporate governance and how this term has evolved over time. Philosophical perspectives on corporate governance, as well as its origins and history are laid out, alongside critical theories and methodologies on governance. The Encyclopedia then examines different aspects of governance related to governance regimes, neoliberalism, finance, accounting and corporate reporting, law and regulation, strategy and forms of governance. Board processes and performance, leadership in the boardroom, board directors and board diversity are explained. Focus is drawn to emerging societal problems and crises related to corporate governance and how these have been addressed by different institutions, such as digital era governance, corporate social responsibility and corporate sustainability and regeneration of the natural world.

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Corporate Governance is an essential reference source for academics, researchers and students of business and management, economics and finance and environmental studies. Professionals and policymakers working in the sectors of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, management and sustainability and strategic management will also find this to be an indispensable reference work.

Subjects:
Commercial Law
Contents:
Introduction to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Corporate Governance 1
Thomas Clarke, Wafa Khlif, Coral Ingley

PART 1. PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
1. Adam Smith: moral sentiments 12
Thomas Clarke
2. Karl Marx: the labour theory of value and exploitation 15
Thomas Clarke
3. John Stuart Mill: utilitarianism and the economic conditions of happiness 18
Thomas Clarke
4. Do private vices bring public benefit? Mandeville and the foundations of modern capitalism 20
Wafa Khlif
5. Capitalism and Deleuze 22
Finn Janning
6. Resisting the financialization of corporate governance with Deleuze and Guattari 23
Charles Barthold
7. Enriqué Dussel’s philosophy of liberation: moving beyond colonial Eurocentrism 25
Wafa Khlif

PART 2. ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
8. Corporate governance 28
Yuri Biondi
9. The genesis of the corporation: The 17th- and 18th-century East India Companies 30
Thomas Clarke
10. Berle and Means and the modern corporation as a new public institution (1850s–1930s) 33
Olivier Weinstein
11. The evolution of corporate governance 35
Bob Tricker
12. Managerial capitalism (1940s–1970s) 38
Olivier Weinstein
13. The countervailing power of the New Deal, and the rise of the financialised corporation and neo-liberalism 41
John Cioffi
14. The new contractual economic theory of the firm (1970s–2010s) 45
Olivier Weinstein
15. The displacement of managerial capitalism by financial capitalism (2010s–2020s) 48
Olivier Weinstein

PART 3. CHALLENGING NEO-LIBERALISM
16. Neoliberal resilience 52
Abby Innes
17. The financialisation of corporate governance 54
Thomas Clarke
18. Challenging neoliberalism in the face of global complexity 57
Wafa Khlif, Thomas Clarke, Lotfi Karoui, Konan A. Seny Kan, Coral Ingley

PART 4. CRITICAL THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES
19. Shareholder primacy and long-term corporate investment 60
Lynn Stout
20. The myths of shareholder primacy 63
Thomas Clarke
21. Social approaches to corporate governance 66
Thomas Donaldson
22. Team production theory of corporate law 68
Margaret M. Blair
23. Extended team production theory 69
Morten Huse
24. Stakeholder theory 70
Thomas Clarke
25. A critique of stakeholder theory 73
Charles Blattberg, Dylan Scudder
26. Behavioural theory of boards and governance 74
Morten Huse
27. Multi-level corporate governance 75
Konan A. Seny Kan
28. Resource dependence theory: a political understanding of corporate governance 77
Werner Nienhüser
29. Sustainability and corporate governance 78
Jeroen Veldman
30. Methodological perspectives in corporate governance 80
Konan A. Seny Kan, Wafa Khlif, Coral Ingley, Lotfi Karoui
31. Integrating theoretical perspectives on corporate governance 82
Lotfi Karoui, Coral Ingley, Wafa Khlif

PART 5. GOVERNANCE REGIMES
32. Anglo-American corporate governance 85
Thomas Clarke
33. European corporate governance: relationship-based approaches 91
Thomas Clarke
34. Asia-Pacific corporate governance: family-controlled business networks 95
Thomas Clarke
35. Corporate governance in Italy 100
Alessandro Zattoni
36. Corporate governance in Central and Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1990 101
Rainhart Lang, Miklos Dobak, Thomas Steger
37. Corporate governance in Central and Eastern Europe after 1990 103
Thomas Steger, Rainhart Lang, Miklos Dobak
38. Neopatrimonial (corporate) governance 105
Danson Kimani, Teerooven Soobaroyen
39. Director independence in developed and developing economies 107
Coral Ingley
40. Structural information asymmetry, local institutions and corporate governance in Africa 113
Charles C. Okeahalam
41. Corporate governance and boards in Africa: the Ubuntu model? 115
Emmanuel Adegbite, Folajimi Ashiru

PART 6. FINANCE AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
42. Ownership and corporate governance 118
Ludo Van der Heyden
43. Corporate governance and finance: investment funds 120
Coral Ingley
44. The global growth of equity markets 125
Thomas Clarke
45. Investor voting and shareholder rights 128
Coral Ingley
46. Insider trading 133
Marc Goergen
47. Pyramidal groups 134
Alessandro Zattoni
48. Corporate governance and finance aspects: dividend policy, bond yields, and risk-taking 135
Coral Ingley
49. Dividend policy 139
Marc Goergen
50. The international premium for corporate governance 140
Thomas Clarke
51. Investors as stewards: a sustainable symbiosis? 143
Hans van Ees, Niels Hermes
52. Purpose and paradigm shifts in banking governance 145
Nihel Chabrak, María Luisa Pajuelo

PART 7. ACCOUNTING AND CORPORATE REPORTING
53. Creative accounting, fraud, and international accounting scandals 148
Michael J. Jones
54. Accounting for inequality 149
Prem Sikka
55. The OECD/G20 agreement on minimum corporate taxation: scope for fairness or financialisation? 153
Yuri Biondi
56. Waves of international frameworks for sustainability reporting 155
David Monciardini, Jukka Tapio Mähönen, Georgina Tsagas
57. Integrity in disclosure and accountability 160
Nihel Chabrak, María Luisa Pajuelo
58. ESG: overview and critique 162
Coral Ingley
59. ESG: reporting and greenwashing 166
Coral Ingley
60. Transparency in corporate governance and ethical conduct 171
Coral Ingley
61. Voluntary environmental disclosure in an authoritarian political context 175
Coral Ingley, Wafa Khlif

PART 8. LAW AND REGULATION
62. The dimensions of corporate personality 180
Lynn Stout
63. Corporate moral personhood 182
Matthew Lampert
64. Enterprise 184
Blanche Segrestin, Kevin Levillain
65. Fiduciary duty 186
Thomas Clarke
66. Corporate governance deviance 189
Ruth V. Aguilera, Siri Terjesen
67. Contractual corporate governance 190
Marc Goergen
68. Codes of good governance 191
Alessandro Zattoni
69. Stewardship codes and investor stewardship 192
Alice Klettner
70. Questioning CEO-Chair separation: a critical review and integrative model 193
Wafa Khlif, Sami El Omari, Konan A. Seny Kan
71. (Convergence of) legal corporate perspectives 195
Véronique Magnier
72. The globalisation of regulation 197
Thomas Clarke
73. Revisiting regulatory frameworks 201
Coral Ingley, Lotfi Karoui, Wafa Khlif
74. A new global regulatory architecture for corporate governance? 202
Thomas Clarke

PART 9. STRATEGY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
75. Corporate governance life cycle 206
Igor Filatotchev, Steven Toms
76. Corporate governance and M&As 207
Xavier Castañer
77. Strategic leadership by the board 210
Ljiljana Erakovic
78. Boards and strategy 211
Alessandro Zattoni
79. Value and value creation in corporate governance 212
Daniel Yar Hamidi
80. Ambidexterity 214
Morten Huse
81. Corporate governance, boards, and innovation: reviews of literature 215
Coral Ingley
82. Organizational legitimacy 219
Martijn Boersma
83. Board strategic balance: a practical theory of sport governance 220
Lesley Ferkins, David Shilbury

PART 10. FORMS OF GOVERNANCE
84. Meta-organizations: evolving forms of governance 223
Héloïse Berkowitz
85. Entrepreneurial threshold firms 224
Jonas Gabrielsson
86. Corporate governance: the case of the Mondragon Cooperative Group 226
Hervé Grellier-Bidalun, Jean Francois Chanlat
87. Corporate governance in IPOs 228
Alessandro Zattoni
88. Value and value creation perspectives from research and practice in SMEs 229
Coral Ingley
89. Complexity and power dynamics in governing family firms 231
Coral Ingley, Wafa Khlif
90. Family firms and board composition – complexity, ownership, and succession 234
Wafa Khlif, Coral Ingley
91. Corporate governance within and by the media 237
Nathalie Fenton
92. Whistleblowing 238
Eva Tsahuridu

PART 11. BOARD PROCESSES AND PERFORMANCE
93. The board of statutory auditors 240
Lino Cinquini, Andrea Melis
94. Board roles 242
Pieter-Jan Bezemer
95. Theorising director task performance 243
Stuart Farquhar
96. Board role performance: opening the black box of board activation process 245
Lotfi Karoui
97. Board processes 247
Alessandro Zattoni
98. Board remuneration 248
Coral Ingley
99. Evolving perspectives on board governance and innovation 251
Coral Ingley
100. Board capital 254
Morten Huse

PART 12. LEADERSHIP IN THE BOARDROOM
101. Board team leadership 256
Ljiljana Erakovic
102. Board dynamics 257
Philip Stiles
103. The chair’s leadership of the board 258
Ljiljana Erakovic
104. The continual rapid inflation in CEO pay in the United States 259
Thomas Clarke
105. Functional stupidity in the boardroom? 264
Martin Blom, Mats Alvesson

PART 13. BOARD DIRECTORS
106. Business elites 266
Sibel Yamak
107. Board reforms 268
Marta A. Geletkanycz
108. Director independence 269
Coral Ingley
109. Directors’ fiduciary duty and perspectives on sustainability 273
Coral Ingley
110. Digital skills of non-executive directors 278
Michele Phillips
PART 14. DIVERSITY AND BOARD
111. Diversity, equity and inclusion 281
Thomas Clarke
112. Diversity on boards 286
Patricia Gabaldon
113. Women on boards: targets and quotas 288
Ruth Sealy, Susan Vinnicombe
114. Women on boards – shifting board behaviours 290
Ruth Sealy
115. Golden skirts 292
Morten Huse
116. Polish women on boards 293
Agnieszka Slomka Golebiowska

PART 15. GLOBALISATION AND INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNANCE
117. The meaning of globalization 295
Thomas Clarke
118. The deregulation of finance and the globalization of capital markets 297
Thomas Clarke
119. Globalization and deglobalization of corporate governance 300
Thomas Clarke
120. Globalization from below 304
Wafa Khlif

PART 16. CRISES IN GOVERNANC
121. Crisis and reform in corporate governance 307
Thomas Clarke
122. The Wall Street crash 1929 309
Thomas Clarke
123. The Asian financial crisis 1997 311
Thomas Clarke
124. NASDAQ/Dot.com crash 314
Thomas Clarke
125. The global financial crisis 2007/2008 317
Thomas Clarke
126. The universal and pervasive impact of financialization 320
Thomas Clarke
127. Why has the COVID-19 pandemic questioned corporate governance? 322
Yvon Pesqueux
128. Beyond economics: revisiting governance crises with Ibn Khaldun 323
Wafa Khlif, Lotfi Karoui

PART 17. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND SOCIETY
129. From government to governance 327
Antonino Palumbo
130. Purpose-driven corporation 329
Blanche Segrestin, Kevin Levillain
131. Conceiving the purpose of the company 331
Thomas Clarke
132. The social licence to operate 335
Thomas Clarke
133. “Good governance” in the face of cultural differences 337
Hèla Yousfi
134. Innovation, growth and productivity 339
Thomas Clarke
135. Trust, trustworthiness and corporate governance 342
Nikolas Kirby
136. Gender board quotas and sustainable development 343
Morten Huse
137. Human rights 344
Justine Nolan
138. Modern slavery 346
Martijn Boersma

PART 18. DIGITAL ERA GOVERNANCE
139. Digital transformation and governance 349
Thomas Clarke
140. Surveillance 353
Afshin Mehrpouya
141. Digital disruption and governance 355
Thomas Clarke
142. Smart governance 359
Yvon Pesqueux
143. Critique of digital disruption 361
Thomas Clarke
144. The governance of cyber security 364
Thomas Clarke

PART 19. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
145. Corporate social responsibility and environmental and social governance 369
Thomas Clarke
146. Doing the “right” thing: ethical behaviour and sustainable value creating business 373
Coral Ingley
147. The potential for interlocking directorships to influence sustainability practices 376
Coral Ingley
148. Corporate tax avoidance 380
Thomas Clarke

PART 20. CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY
149. Corporate governance of sustainability 386
Wafa Khlif, Lotfi Karoui, Coral Ingley
150. The governance of sustainability 389
Bobby Banerjee
151. Governing for sustainability 390
Coral Ingley
152. The sustainability value curve 393
Thomas Clarke
153. Corporate governance and sustainable value creation 396
Beate Sjåfjell
154. Corporate climate champions 397
Jasper Finkeldey
155. Corporate greenwashing 399
Thomas Clarke

PART 21. REGENERATION OF THE NATURAL WORLD
156. The central role of environmental justice in corporate governance 403
Marcel Llavero-Pasquina, Joan Martínez-Alier
157. Natural capital 406
Coral Ingley
158. Extinction accounting 409
Jill Atkins
159. Accounting care 411
Jacques Richard
160. Accounting for biodiversity 412
Mike Jones
161. Systemic sustainability in governance 414
Wafa Khlif, Lotfi Karoui, Coral Ingley
162. Innovation for sustainability 416
Thomas Clarke
163. Regeneration of natural capital 419
Thomas Clarke