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- About this book
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This volume deals with issues of widespread interest including, the origins of investor rights in different markets, the political, legal and economic conditions that determine levels of shareholder participation, and the implications of variation in investor rights.
- About the authors
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JONATHON G.S. KOPPELL Associate of Professor of Politics and Management at the Yale School of Management, USA, where he previously directed the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance. He is the author of World Rule and The Politics of Quasi-Government.
- Reviews
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"This interesting collection of essays provides stimulating linkage from the origins of shareholding in the Dutch East India company over 400 years ago to the controversies in our era over executive pay, shareholder rights, and the workings of corporate governance. The chapters enlighten us about past , present and where to go in the future." - Peter Gourevitch, Professor, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego, and co-author of Political Power and Corporate Control
"This is a fascinating collection of papers on the early evolution of the corporation and shareholder advocacy. The carefully researched descriptions of the introduction of corporate governance in different parts of the world appreciably extend our understanding of the evolution of the corporation and provide important insights into modern corporate governance debates." - Professor Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Dean, Said Business School, University of Oxford
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Shareholder Advocacy and the Development of the Corporation: The Timeless Dilemmas of an Age-old Solution
Pages 1-26
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An Admiralty for Asia: Business Organization and the Evolution of Corporate Governance in the Dutch Republic, 1590–1640
Pages 29-60
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Shareholder Activists Avant la Lettre: The “Complaining Participants” in the Dutch East India Company, 1622–1625
Pages 61-87
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The Great Expropriation: Interpreting the Innovation of “Permanent Capital” at the Dutch East India Company
Pages 89-98
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Litigation Plus Regulation: The Protection of Investor Rights in Late-Medieval Venice
Pages 101-122
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Origins of Shareholder Advocacy
- Editors
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- J. Koppell
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Jonathan GS Koppell
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-11666-5
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230116665
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-10732-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-29072-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 292
- Number of Illustrations
- 15 b/w illustrations
- Topics
