CORPORATE GOVERNANCE by Mark Hirschey (Editor), Kose John (Editor), Anil K. Makhija (Editor) ( 9780762311873 )

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Title:

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

By:

Mark Hirschey (Editor), Kose John (Editor), Anil K. Makhija (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0762311878

ISBN 13:

9780762311873

Publisher:

EMERALD PUBLISHING LIMITED

Pub. date:

1 June, 2005

Series:

Advances in Financial Economics 11

Pages:

256

Description:

Presents papers which focus on corporate governance defined as the system of control that helps corporations manage, administer, and direct economic resources. They show how corporate control mechanisms within the firm have evolved around the world to allocate decision authority to that person or organization best able to perform a given task.

Synopsis:

Papers in this volume focus on corporate governance broadly defined as the system of control that helps corporations effectively manage, administer, and direct economic resources. Questions of what and how to produce become equally important as organizations strive to better serve demanding customers. As a result, the design and control of effective organizations have become an integral part of financial economics. Traditionally, organization structure has been described by the vertical and horizontal relationships among the firm, its customers and suppliers. More recently, researchers have come to understand that the efficiency of firms depends upon the ability of participants to find effective means to minimize the transaction costs of coordinating productive activity. As financial economists have learned, resource allocation will be efficient so long as transaction costs remain low and property rights can be freely assigned and exchanged. An important problem that must be addressed is the so-called agency problem resulting from the natural conflict between owners and managers. Agency costs are the explicit and implicit transaction costs necessary to overcome the natural divergence of interest between agent managers and principal stockholders. The value-maximizing organization design minimizes unproductive conflict within the firm. Papers in this volume show how corporate control mechanisms inside and outside the firm have evolved around the world to allocate decision authority to that person or organization best able to perform a given task.

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Imprint:

JAI Press Inc.

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