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This is a book about shareholders — who they are, what they own, how their composition and character has changed, and with it their relationship with the companies they own. It is also a book about shareholder rights and responsibilities. In a clear and readable style the book explores the key current corporate governance issues — company law and reporting, chief executive pay, regulatory and accountability requirements — against the background of an ever-changing business environment: an environment in which private investors may have grown in number, but in which shareholders influence has dwindled as institutions have become the dominant shareholding group. Throughout the book the authors provide numerous examples and anecdotes illustrating the evolution of the joint stock company from the South Sea Company of the 18th century to the giants and cause celebres on the corporate stage in the 1980s and 1990s. Both authors are authoritative and informed commentators on issues of corporate governance with extensive management, policy and advocacy experience; their underlying concern is to show the importance of shareholder interest and involvement, which they strongly believe will remain in the best interests of the company and the wider society in the 21st century.
About the author
Jonathan Charkham was formerly adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England and is Visiting Professor at City University, London. He has served on many committees on corporate governance abroad and in the UK including the National Health Service (1993/4) and the Cadbury Committee. He is an Adviser to PIRC Ltd, a member of the Committee of the Joint Disciplinary Scheme of the Accounting Profession, and a non-executive director of Great Universal Stores PLC. He is the author of Keeping Good Company: A Study of Corporate Governance in Five Counties (OUP, 1995). Anne Simpson is Managing Director of PIRC, one of the main consultancy bodies associated with corporate governance and institutional shareholder choice. He died in 2006
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