Essential Director

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Essential Director

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Everything you need to know about corporate governance and being a director—most accessibly presented and attractively packaged.Following the great shift in attitudes regarding the role of directors as a result of accusations of fat cattery and scandals involving firms like Enron, WorldCom and Andersen, to name but a few, the bulk of the book is a much expanded A-Z with several hundred entries that explain the essentials of corporate governance and the function and responsibilities of directors. Entries include: Audit Committee, Board structure, Corporate veil, Cross holding, Deep pocket syndrome, Directors' remuneration, Disclosure, Ethics, Fiduciary duty, Helicopter vision, Indemnity insurance, Inside information, Japanese corporate governance, Keiretsu, Litigation, Monitoring management, Non-executive director, Outside director, Poison pill, Policy making, Relationship investor, Remuneration committee, Shareholder value, Stakeholder theory, Stewardship theory, Tokenism, Two hat dilemma, Unitary board, Voting rights, War room, Yakusa, and Zaibatsu. Also included as appendices are checklists, good practice guidelines and sources of information.

Author Biography: Bob Tricker has held professorial post at universities in England, Australia and Hong Kong. He is the author of several books on corporate governance and is the editor of Corporate Governance: An International Review.

Synopsis

Everything you need to know about corporate governance and being a director—most accessibly presented and attractively packaged.Following the great shift in attitudes regarding the role of directors as a result of accusations of fat cattery and scandals involving firms like Enron, WorldCom and Andersen, to name but a few, the bulk of the book is a much expanded A-Z with several hundred entries that explain the essentials of corporate governance and the function and responsibilities of directors. Entries include: Audit Committee, Board structure, Corporate veil, Cross holding, Deep pocket syndrome, Directors' remuneration, Disclosure, Ethics, Fiduciary duty, Helicopter vision, Indemnity insurance, Inside information, Japanese corporate governance, Keiretsu, Litigation, Monitoring management, Non-executive director, Outside director, Poison pill, Policy making, Relationship investor, Remuneration committee, Shareholder value, Stakeholder theory, Stewardship theory, Tokenism, Two hat dilemma, Unitary board, Voting rights, War room, Yakusa, and Zaibatsu. Also included as appendices are checklists, good practice guidelines and sources of information.

Author Biography: Bob Tricker has held professorial post at universities in England, Australia and Hong Kong. He is the author of several books on corporate governance and is the editor of Corporate Governance: An International Review.