Recent years have seen a number of scandals that have revealed sometimes shockingly poor standards of corporate governance in well-known companies - and exposed some directors had regard only to their own interests while others were hopelessly ineffective. Managers may run a company but it is the job of directors to make sure it is well run and run in the right direction. This clear and lively guide to the role and responsibilities of directors is aimed not only at those on the board, but also at managers and stakeholders in every kind of organisation. Including case studies that illustrate poor standards of corporate governance in companies the A-Z entries cover such concepts and terms as:

Agency theory, Audit Committee,Corporate veil, Deep pocket syndrome, Disclosure, Ethics, Games directors play, Helicopter vision, Keiretsu, Log rolling, Mentor, Non-executive director, Poison pill,Shareholder value, Stakeholder theory, Tokenism, Two hat dilemma, Unitary board,War room, Yakusa, and Zaibatsu.

Extensive appendices provide codes of best practice and checklists that will be of immense practical help to those involved in setting and raising standards of governance in their organisations.

About the Author

Dr. R. I. (Bob) Tricker served on the Councils of the Institutes of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Management Accountants. After a few years as a financial controller in industry, and study at Harvard and Oxford Universities, he became professor of information systems at Warwick University, then Director of the Oxford Centre for Management Studies (now the S�id Business School, Oxford) and a Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, where his research led to the first book with the title Corporate Governance (1984). He was then appointed Hong Kong University Business School's Professor of Finance.
His first corporate governance book was The Independent Director(1978). Subsequently, he wrote International Corporate Governance - text, cases and readings (1994), and edited Corporate Governance(2000) for the Ashcroft History of Management Thought. He was founder-editor of Corporate Governance - an international review. His latest books are Directors - an A-Z of corporate governance, the fifth edition of the Economist Pocket Director and Corporate Governance - principles, policies and practices, Oxford University Press, 2009.
He holds Honorary Professorships of three universities, has been involved in corporate governance developments in Hong Kong, China, and Russia, and consults, teaches and writes on corporate governance around the world.

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