Absolute Essentials of Corporate Governance

Stephen Bloomfield

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9780367557850
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000195309
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

This shortform textbook, a concise overview of the development and current state of corporate governance, provides a critical narrative on the field.

Beginning with insightful historical background, the author shows how value-adding corporate governance involves more than unthinking compliance to a recitation of statutes, regulations and principles, devoid of context. Features include basic definitions, reviews of theoretical governance problems, and a worldwide review of current governance provisions along with more detail on the UK situation. Revealing the geology of governance in the business world, the book highlights its progress set into a framework of regulation and law.

This textbook provides a brief, authoritative summary of the field for two core audiences: as a reference for specialist readers, and as an concise introduction for non-specialist readers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 What is corporate governance?
• 2 Conceptual problems in corporate governance
• 3 A brief history of corporate governance
• 4 The current position of corporate governance in the UK: Part 1: overall position
• 5 The current position of corporate governance in the UK: Part 2: individual provisions
• 6 Corporate governance around the world: particular features
• 7 The future of corporate governance
• 8 Conclusion
• Appendix: accounting and corporate scandals
• Glossary (by point of introduction)
• Index