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Colleagues:

 

Business Expert Press is pleased to announce the release of  "A Primer on Corporate Governance" authored by Professor Cornelis (Kees) A. de Kluyver.  "This book is written for senior executives and corporate directors and (as the title suggests) is a primer on corporate governance - the system that defines the distribution of rights and responsibilities among different participants in the corporation, such as the board, managers, shareholders and other stakeholders, and spells out the rules and procedures for making decisions on corporate affairs. Corporate governance also deals with how a company's objectives are set, and the means of attaining those objectives and monitoring performance."  You can read more about this new BEP release at http://www.businessexpertpress.com/node/46.

 

Along with Kenneth Merchant at USC, I edit the Corporate Governance series (and the strategic management series) for BEP and am always looking for new book proposals.  Our books offer concise distillations of leading edge business practices in a form accessed by executives and used in executive education programs around the globe.  Take a look at BEP online or contact me directly if you have an interest in joining our author team.

 

Mason A. Carpenter

M. Keith Weikel Professor in Leadership

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mcarpenter@bus.wisc.edu

(608) 262-9449

Sent on behalf of Bruce Kogut.

Bruce Kogut has published a book: The Small World of Corporate Governance, MIT Press, 2012.

From the publisher:

The financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision of credit when no one seems to have credit. This book, to which over 20 scholars contributed joint work, analyzes at length how 'clubs'  of owners and directors influence governance of firms.   The book maps the influence of these types of economic and social networks--communities of agents (people or firms) and the ties among them--on corporate behavior and governance. The empirically rich studies in the book are largely concerned with mechanisms for the emergence of governance networks rather than with what determines the best outcomes. The chapters identify "structural breaks"--privatization, for example, or globalization--and assess why powerful actors across countries behaved similarly or differently in terms of network properties and corporate governance. The chapters examine, among other topics, the surprisingly heterogeneous network structures that contradict the common belief in a single Anglo-Saxon model; the variation in network trajectories among the formerly communist countries including China; signs of convergence in response to the common structural breaks in Europe; the growing structural power of women due to gains in gender diversity on corporate governance in Scandinavia; the "small world" of merger and acquisition activity in Germany and the United States; the properties of a global and transnational governance network; and application of agent-based models to understanding the emergence of governance. The data which accompany the book are available at the Columbia University Sanford. C. Bernstein Center website.