Investor Engagement Investors and Management Practice under Shareholder Value

by Martin, Roderick; Casson, Peter D.; Nisar, Tahir M.

• ISBN13: 9780191707896
• ISBN10: 0191707899
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Roderick Martin is a sociologist, with a long tradition of work in employment relations and industrial sociology. He is currently Professor of Management at the Central European University Business School (Budapest, Hungary). Previous books include The Sociology of Power (1977, Routledge and Kegan Paul), New Technology and Industrial Relations in Fleet Street (1981, Oxford University Press), Bargaining Power (1992, Oxford University Press), and Transforming Management in Central and Eastern Europe (1999, Oxford University Press). Peter D. Casson is Senior Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Southampton School of Management, with a background in psychology as well as accounting. After working as a research psychologist he trained as an accountant, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. His research interests include issues related to senior executive and employee share participation schemes, and accounting for complex financial instruments, as well as corporate governance. Tahir M. Nisar is Lecturer at the University of Southampton School of Management, with a particular interest in the economics of labour management. His PhD was from the LSE for a thesis on Voice, Value and Corporate Governance: A Study of the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey. Recent papers have been concerned with the role of subjectivity in bonus plan payouts and with bonuses and investment in intangibles.