Behaviour and Rationality in Corporate Governance

Informationen zum Autor Oliver Marnet is a Lecturer at the University of Exeter Business School. Klappentext Corporate scandals due to bad accounting happen far too frequently for a system of corporate governance to be deemed effective. This book tells why the safeguards designed to prevent bad accounting so often fail. By studying why the auditors and members of a board of directors regularly fail to deliver the truth about a company's financial state of affairs, this provocative book explores a serious problem in the system of reporting financial information.This book is unique in that it draws together various strands of the literature on corporate governance, accounting, law, cognitive research, psychology, behavioural economics and conventional economics to shed light on questions regarding the feasibility of independence and impartiality of boards of directors and external auditors as monitors and gatekeepers in corporate governance. The book is essential reading for professional accountants and auditors, directors, regulators, law makers, corporate lawyers, and investment bankers. It will appeal to all those interested in behavioural economics and corporate governance. Zusammenfassung Corporate scandals due to bad accounting happen too frequently for a system of corporate governance to be deemed effective. Exploring the reasons behind corporate misbehaviour, this book also answers the question of whether recent reforms are sufficient to prevent further scandals from occurring in the future. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Overview of Corporate Governance 3. Earnings Management 4. Rationality or Rational Behaviour? 5. Behaviour and Rationality in Corporate Governance 6. Independence of Auditors and Directors 7. Recent Corporate Governance Failures 8. Implications for Governance Policy 9. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Oliver Marnet, Oliver (Coventry Business School Marnet, Marnet Oliver
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.03.2011
• EAN: 9780415620345
• ISBN: 978-0-415-62034-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Routledge Studies in Corporate; Routledge Studies in Corporate Governance
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, LAW / Commercial / General, Commercial law, Economic theory & philosophy, International business, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Management of specific areas, Microeconomics, Economic theory and philosophy