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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Western business practice has been transformed since the 1980s, especially in the US and Britain, with the growth of shareholder value. This book examines the resulting change in relations between investors and managers as investors have become actively engaged with the companies in which they invest, the rationale for this, and forms it takes. Zusammenfassung Western business practice has been transformed since the 1980s, especially in the US and Britain, with the growth of shareholder value. This book examines the resulting change in relations between investors and managers as investors have become actively engaged with the companies in which they invest, the rationale for this, and forms it takes. 1. Shareholder Value as Context for Investor Engagement ; 2. Investor Engagement ; 3. Institutional Investor Engagement Propensity ; 4. Forms of Institutional Investor Engagement ; 5. Private Equity Investor Engagement ; 6. Managing Investors ; 7. Corporate Governance Convergence in International Perspective ; 8. Shareholder Value, Investor Engagement, and Management Practice: A Normative Evaluation ...
