RONALD ANDERSON, PHD, is a Professor of Finance and the Gary Cohn Endowed Research Professor at the Kogod School of Business, American University. He currently serves as the Chair of the Department of Finance and Real Estate. Before earning his PhD, he worked as an engineer and corporate executive for Schlumberger Limited for more than eleven years, holding both domestic and international posts. Professor Anderson has published extensively on the subject of corporate governance in leading journals in finance, management, accounting, and economics.
Acknowledgments | |
Background and Perspectives on Corporate Governance | |
History, Systems, Best Practices, and Empirical Evidence | |
An Overview of Corporate Governance | |
The Financial Determinants of American Corporate Governance: A Brief History | |
Corporate Governance Systems | |
Corporate Governance Best Practices | |
What's Wrong with Corporate Governance Best Practices? | |
The Effect of Corporate Governance on Performance | |
International Corporate Governance Research | |
Separation of Ownership and Control | |
Agency Theory: Incomplete Contracting and Ownership Structure | |
Theories and Models of Corporate Governance | |
Unfettered Agents? The Role of Ethics in Corporate Governance | |
Internal Governance | |
Boards of Directors | |
Board Composition and Organization Issues | |
Board Diversity | |
Board Subcommittees for Corporate Governance | |
Compensation, Ownership, and Turnover | |
Executive Compensation: Incentives and Externalities | |
Compensation Consultants and Executive Pay | |
Corporate Governance and Ownership Structure | |
The Effects of Management Turnover on Firm Performance | |
External Governance | |
Nonexecutive Shareholders | |
CorporateMonitoring by Blockholders | |
The Governance of Family Firms | |
Institutional and Other Shareholders | |
The Politics of Shareholder Activism | |
Nonequity Stakeholders | |
Executive Behavior: A Creditor Perspective on Managerial Ownership | |
Governance of Banking Institutions | |
Corporate Governance: Nonequity Stakeholders | |
Proxy Contests and Markets | |
Proxy Contests | |
Corporate Takeovers and Restructurings | |
Corporate Takeovers andWealth Creation | |
Accounting, Legal, and Regulatory Intervention | |
Corporate Governance and Accountability | |
Corporate Governance Rules and Guidelines | |
Economics Aspects of Corporate Governance and Regulation | |
Answers to Chapter Discussion Questions | |
Index | |
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