Behavioural Risks in Corporate Governance - Regulatory Intervention As a Risk Management Mechanism

Recent cases of corporate failures, including the fixing of LIBOR rates and money laundering issues in the banking industry, highlight how behavioural issues on the part of company directors are significant contributory factors in corporate governance and the success or failure of companies. This book examines how personality and behavioural issues have contributed to major corporate failures, and how this risk may be managed.

The book examines behavioural risks in corporate governance, and evaluates the extent to which risk management mechanisms have acknowledged various aspects of behaviour. Drawing from cases in the UK, the US and Australia and research in psychology and the behavioural sciences, Ngozi Vivian Okoye argues that current corporate governance mechanisms lack provision for identifying and managing personality risks, and suggests how constituent elements of behaviour should be engaged with when developing preventive mechanisms for corporate failures. Okoye presents a conceptual framework for identifying and managing personality risks, and explores how personality risk may be built into corporate governance regulation.

The book will be of great use and interest to researchers and practitioners in business and company law, corporate governance, and critical management studies.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. A Discussion of Relevant Literature 3. Risk and Corporate Governance 4. Impact of Behavioural Risks in Corporate Governance 5. Personality and Corporate Governance 6. Conceptual Framework for Personality Risk Management 7. The Model 8.Conclusion

About the author

Ngozi Vivian Okoye is a Senior Lecturer at the Lincoln Law School, University of Lincoln, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Ngozi Vivian Okoye, Okoye Ngozi Vivian
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2015
• EAN: 9780415743068
• ISBN: 978-0-415-74306-8
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Routledge Research in Corporate Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, LAW / General, LAW / Corporate, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Law, Management: leadership & motivation, business strategy, Management: leadership and motivation, Jurisprudence & general issues, Sociology: work & labour, Management of specific areas, Company law, Sociology: work and labour, Jurisprudence and general issues