Contingent Capital - Short term Investors Evolution of Corporate Governance in France

Informationen zum Autor Michel Goyer is Associate Professor in the Industrial Relations and Organizational Behavior unit, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He holds a PhD in Political Science from MIT. He has published in the areas of comparative corporate governance, institutional theory, and diversity in advanced capitalist economies, and on labor relations in France. Klappentext The increased power of finance has been singled out as a common factor in the corporate scandals of the early 2000s and the turmoil in the financial markets at the end of the decade. Contingent Capital examines the importance of institutional context in understanding the behaviour of the institutional investors behind this financial power. Zusammenfassung The increased power of finance has been singled out as a common factor in the corporate scandals of the early 2000s and the turmoil in the financial markets at the end of the decade. Contingent Capital examines the importance of institutional context in understanding the behaviour of the institutional investors behind this financial power.

Product details

• Authors: Michel Goyer, Michel (Associate Professor Goyer, Goyer Michel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2011
• EAN: 9780199578085
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957808-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Business & Economics / Investments & Securities / General, Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate Governance, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Investment and securities, Corporate governance & responsibilities