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Corporate Governance in Contention (2018)
Book
Driver, C., & Thompson, G. (Eds.). (2018). Corporate Governance in Contention. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805274.001.0001

Corporate governance is a complex idea that is often inappropriately simplified as a cookbook of recommended measures to improve financial performance. Meta studies of published research show that the supposed benign effects of these measures - indep... Read More about Corporate Governance in Contention.

Fixing the Corporation: a Management or a Governance issue? (2018)
Book Chapter
Driver, C. (2018). Fixing the Corporation: a Management or a Governance issue?. In C. Driver, & G. Thompson (Eds.), Corporate Governance in Contention (239-260). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805274.003.0011

In this chapter I first review the current state of play in corporate governance debates, highlighting challenges to the dominant agency view. Following a critique of the economic reasoning supporting shareholder primacy I consider two contrasting ap... Read More about Fixing the Corporation: a Management or a Governance issue?.

Corporate Governance and Why it Matters (2018)
Book Chapter
Driver, C., & Thompson, G. (2018). Corporate Governance and Why it Matters. In C. Driver, & G. Thompson (Eds.), Corporate Governance in Contention (1-24). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805274.003.0001

This chapter introduces the idea of governance and proceeds to a structured discussion of what corporate governance means and why it matters. The discussion is divided into three themes: the first deals with enterprise—long-run commitments that firms... Read More about Corporate Governance and Why it Matters.

Introduction (2014)
Book Chapter
Williamson, J., Driver, C., & Kenway, P. (2014). Introduction. In J. Williamson, C. Driver, & P. Kenway (Eds.), Beyond Shareholder Value: the reasons and choices for corporate governance reform (6-15). TUC