Shareholder Empowerment
A New Era in Corporate Governance
Editors: Goranova, Maria, Ryan, Lori Verstegen (Eds.)
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- About this book
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In this volume, leading management experts offer critical insights into the promises and illusions of shareholder empowerment, the discrepancies between theory and practice, and the challenges posed by variations in global corporate governance regimes.
- About the authors
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Maria Goranova is Associate Professor of Organizations and Strategic Management at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. She researches corporate governance and corporate strategy, with a focus on how ownership interests, shareholder activism and executive compensation affect corporate diversification and mergers and acquisitions. She serves on the editorial board of Journal of Management and her research has been published in such journals as Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Journal of Management.
Lori Verstegen Ryan is Professor of Management and Director of the Corporate Governance Institute at San Diego State University, USA. Her research interests include institutional ownership and business ethics, and her work has been published in top journals including Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Management, and Business Ethics Quarterly. She has served on several journal editorial boards including Academy of Management Review.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Shareholder Empowerment: An Introduction
Pages 1-32
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Combining Financial and Psychological Insights for a New Typology of Ownership
Pages 35-61
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Is Shareholder Empowerment a “Good Thing”?
Pages 63-79
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Shareholder Democracy as a Misbegotten Metaphor
Pages 81-102
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“Agents without Principals” Revisited: Theorizing the Effects of Increased Shareholder Participation in Corporate Governance
Pages 103-135
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Shareholder Empowerment
- Book Subtitle
- A New Era in Corporate Governance
- Editors
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- Maria Goranova
- Lori Verstegen Ryan
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-37393-9
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137373939
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-37644-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 335
- Topics
