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Title Corporate governance and firm organization : microfoundations and structural forms / edited by Anna Grandori
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 397 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Reframing corporate governance: behavioral assumptions, governance mechanisms, institutional dynamics / Anna Grandori -- PART I. CONTINGENT STRUCTURES AND MULTIPLE RIGHTHOLDERS: CO-DESIGNING GOVERNANCE AND ORGANIZATION -- Comparative institutional analysis of corporate governance / Masahiko Aoki -- The neglected benefits of the corporate form: entity status and the separation of asset ownership from control / Margaret M. Blair -- Governing with multiple principals: an empirically-based analysis of capital providers' preferences and superior governance structures / Anna Grandori, Giuseppe Soda -- Corporate governance in international joint ventures: toward a theory of partner preferences / John Child, Suzana B. Rodrigues -- Information intermediaries' incentives nad corporate strategy choices in the US / Patrick Moreton, Todd Zenger -- PART II. BEYOND 'CONTROL AND ALIGNMENT': NON-ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES AND RELATIONAL GOVERNANCE -- Economy, society, and worker representation in corporate governance / Michael J. Piore -- Corruption, fraud, and corporate governance: a report on Enron / Paul Windolf -- Corporate governance for crooks? The case for corporate virtue / Margit Osterloh, Bruno S. Frey -- Myopic opportunism and joint production: a relational approach to corporate governance / Siegwart Lindenberg -- The benefit of doubt: shadow norms and governance in trust-based organizations / Joseph Lampel -- The governance of innovation: the case of Rolls-Royce plc / William Lazonick, Andrea Prencipe -- PART III. EXPLAINING DIFFERENCE AND CHANGE IN CORPORATE GOVERANCE SYSTEMS: BEYOND THE CONVERGENCE/DIVERGENCE DILEMMA -- Explaining western securities markets / Mark J. Roe -- Convergence of corporate governance during the stock market buble: towards Anglo-American or European standards? / Steen Thomsen -- The worldwide diffusion of codes of good governance / Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Ruth V. Aguilera -- From colleague to employee: determinants of changing career governance structures in elite law firms / Ryon Lancaster, Brian Uzzi
Summary Recent scandals involving large firms, in the USA and elsewhere, have brought into focus the role and conduct of major multinationals. This text looks at issues surrounding the organisation of such companies, and the ways in which it impacts on corporate governance
Analysis Microfoundations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Corporate governance.
Organizational behavior.
Corporate culture.
Organizational Culture
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate Governance.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Leadership.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Development.
Corporate culture
Corporate governance
Organizational behavior
Corporate governance.
Bedrijfsorganisatie.
Form Electronic book
Author Grandori, Anna
ISBN 1423770838
9781423770831
0199269769
9780199269761
9786610754977
6610754977