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Elgar Encyclopedia of Corporate Governance

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With 163 authoritative entries providing definitive explanations and critiques of the fundamental principles and practices of corporate governance, this timely Encyclopedia is a comprehensive overview of the economic, political, social, legal and environmental impacts of corporations across the globe.

Bringing together almost 100 leading experts, the Encyclopedia addresses the meaning and purpose of corporate governance and how this term has evolved over time. Philosophical perspectives on corporate governance, as well as its origins and history are laid out, alongside critical theories and methodologies on governance. The Encyclopedia then examines different aspects of governance related to governance regimes, neoliberalism, finance, accounting and corporate reporting, law and regulation, strategy and forms of governance. Board processes and performance, leadership in the boardroom, board directors and board diversity are explained. Focus is drawn to emerging societal problems and crises related to corporate governance and how these have been addressed by different institutions, such as digital era governance, corporate social responsibility and corporate sustainability and regeneration of the natural world.

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Corporate Governance is an essential reference source for academics, researchers and students of business and management, economics and finance and environmental studies. Professionals and policymakers working in the sectors of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, management and sustainability and strategic management will also find this to be an indispensable reference work.

Key Features:

● 163 distinct entries structured by theme
● Combines empirical findings with real-world examples
● Adopts a comparative global analysis from leading academics
● Accessible explanations of fundamental concepts and principles 

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Introduction to the Elgar
Encyclopedia of Corporate Governance 1
Thomas Clarke, Wafa Khlif,
Coral Ingley
PART 1 PHILOSOPHICAL
PERSPECTIVES ON
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
1 Adam Smith: moral sentiments 12
Thomas Clarke
2 Karl Marx: the labour
theory of value and exploitation 15
Thomas Clarke
3 John Stuart Mill:
utilitarianism and the
economic conditions of happiness 18
Thomas Clarke
4 Do private vices bring
public benefit? Mandeville
and the foundations of
modern capitalism 20
Wafa Khlif
5 Capitalism and Deleuze 22
Finn Janning
6 Resisting the
financialization of corporate
governance with Deleuze
and Guattari 23
Charles Barthold
7 Enriqué Dussel’s
philosophy of liberation:
moving beyond colonial
Eurocentrism 25
Wafa Khlif
PART 2 ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
8 Corporate governance 28
Yuri Biondi
9 The genesis of the
corporation: The 17th- and
18th-century East India Companies 30
Thomas Clarke
10 Berle and Means and the
modern corporation as
a new public institution
(1850s–1930s) 33
Olivier Weinstein
11 The evolution of corporate
governance 35
Bob Tricker
12 Managerial capitalism
(1940s–1970s) 38
Olivier Weinstein
13 The countervailing power
of the New Deal, and the
rise of the financialised
corporation and neo-liberalism 41
John Cioffi
14 The new contractual
economic theory of the firm
(1970s–2010s) 45
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