Efnisyfirlit

• Cover Page
• About This eBook
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents at a Glance
• Contents
• Register Your Book
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Preface
• 1. Introduction to Corporate Governance
  • Self-Interested Executives
  • Defining Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Governance Standards
  • Best Practice or Best Practices? Does “One Size Fit All”?
  • Relationship between Corporate Governance and Firm Performance
  • Endnotes
• 2. International Corporate Governance
  • Capital Market Efficiency
  • Legal Tradition
  • Accounting Standards
  • Enforcement of Regulations
  • Societal and Cultural Values
  • Individual National Governance Structures
  • Endnotes
  • Interlude
• 3. Board of Directors: Duties and Liability
  • Board Responsibilities
  • Board Independence
  • The Operations of the Board
  • Duration of Director Terms
  • Director Elections
  • Removal of Directors
  • Legal Obligations of Directors
  • Endnotes
• 4. Board of Directors: Selection, Compensation, and Removal
  • Market for Directors
  • Director Recruitment Process
  • Director Compensation
  • Removal of Directors
  • Endnotes
• 5. Board of Directors: Structure and Consequences
  • Board Structure
  • Summary
  • Endnotes
  • Interlude
• 6. Strategy, Performance Measurement, and Risk Management
  • Organizational Strategy
  • Strategy Implementation Process
  • Business Model Development and Testing
  • Key Performance Measures
  • How Well Are Boards Doing with Performance Measures and Business Models?
  • Risk and Risk Management
  • Risk and Risk Tolerance
  • Risk to the Business Model
  • Risk Management
  • Oversight of Risk Management
  • Assessing Board Performance on Risk Management
  • Cybersecurity
  • Endnotes
• 7. CEO Selection, Turnover, and Succession Planning
  • Labor Market for Chief Executive Officers
  • Labor Pool of CEO Talent
  • CEO Turnover
  • Newly Appointed CEOs
  • Models of CEO Succession
  • The Succession Process
  • How Well Are Boards Doing with Succession Planning?
  • Executive Search Firms
  • Endnotes
• 8. Executive Compensation and Incentives
  • The Controversy over Executive Compensation
  • Competing Theories of CEO Pay
  • Components of Compensation
  • Determining Compensation
  • Compensation Consultants
  • Compensation Levels
  • Ratio of CEO Pay to Other Top Executive Pay
  • Ratio of CEO Pay to Average Employee Pay
  • Compensation Mix
  • Short-Term Incentives
  • Long-Term Incentives
  • Benefits and Perquisites
  • Compensation Disclosure
  • Say-on-Pay
  • Competing Theories of CEO Pay
  • Endnotes
• 9. Executive Equity Ownership
  • Equity Ownership and Firm Performance
  • Equity Ownership and Risk
  • Equity Ownership and Agency Costs
  • Accounting Manipulation
  • Manipulation of Equity Grants
  • Equity Sales and Insider Trading
  • Rule 10b5-1
  • Hedging
  • Pledging
  • Repricing and Exchange Offers
  • Endnotes
• 10. Financial Reporting and External Audit
  • The Audit Committee
  • Accounting Quality, Transparency, and Controls
  • Financial Reporting Quality
  • Financial Restatements
  • Models to Detect Accounting Manipulations
  • The External Audit
  • Audit Quality
  • Structure of Audit Industry
  • Impact of Sarbanes–Oxley
  • External Auditor as CFO
  • Auditor Rotation
  • Endnotes
• 11. The Market for Corporate Control
  • The Market for Corporate Control
  • Stock Market Assessment of Acquiring and Target Firms
  • Antitakeover Protections
  • Antitakeover Actions
  • Warding Off Unwanted Acquirers
  • Endnotes
• 12. Shareholders and Shareholder Activism
  • The Role of Shareholders
  • Blockholders and Institutional Investors
  • Institutional Investors and Proxy Voting
  • Activist Investors
  • The Rise of Index Investing
  • Shareholder Democracy and Corporate Engagement
  • Proxy Advisory Firms
  • Endnotes
• 13. Stakeholders and Stakeholder Activism
  • Pressure to Incorporate Stakeholder Interests
  • Legal and Economic Implications
  • Director and CEO Views on Stakeholders
  • ESG Metrics and Disclosure
  • External Assessment of ESG
  • Endnotes
• 14. Corporate Governance and ESG Ratings
  • Third-Party Ratings
  • Credit Ratings
  • Commercial Corporate Governance Ratings
  • Governance Rating Systems by Academic Researchers
  • The Viability of Governance Ratings
  • ESG Ratings
  • Endnotes
• 15. Alternative Models of Governance
  • Family-Controlled Corporations
  • Venture-Backed Companies
  • Private Equity-Owned Companies
  • Nonprofit Organizations
  • Endnotes
• 16. Summary and Conclusions
  • Testing Remains Insufficient
  • The Current Focus Is Misdirected
  • Important Variables Are Clearly Missing
  • Context Is Important
  • Rights of Shareholders and Stakeholders
  • Endnotes
• Index

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