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Offers detailed case studies that demonstrate the crucial strategic issues facing nonprofit governing boards and offers board members new methods for dealing with them.
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Corporate Profit and Nuclear Safety: Strategy at Northeast Utilities in the 1990s
Paul W. MacAvoy , and
Jean W. Rosenthal
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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ASIN: 0691119945 |
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Northeast Utilities Company adopted an ambitious new competitive strategy in the mid-1980s, seeking to become the low-cost supplier in New England electric power markets bracing for deregulation. Given its high-cost nuclear facilities, doing so required a corporate turnaround. For a decade Northeast faced increasing public and employee resistance to cost cutting at its nuclear plants. Though management achieved many of its goals, curtailing outlays on nuclear operations meant high risk that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would close the plants because of frequent, prolonged outages. This is just what happened in 1996. Did management's deliberate cost-containment strategy take nuclear operations to an inevitable regulatory shutdown, and if so, why? Was it the pursuit of executive compensation tied to cost containment that caused undue risk of regulatory shutdown?
Paul MacAvoy and Jean Rosenthal describe ten years of corporate performance preceding the shutdown, detailing aggressive executive decisions, mounting regulatory actions in response to increasingly severe operational failures, and--at the same time--overall improvement in corporate earnings, stock prices, and executive pay packages. They relate the complexities of managing declining nuclear plant operations under ever more pressing budgetary targets. Their discussion of the increasing risk of outages raises the issue of the tradeoff of profit and conservative management of hazard operations.
All the more timely in light of the massive 2003 East Coast blackout, Corporate Profit and Nuclear Safety represents a powerful and cautionary commentary on industrial practices that goes to the heart of effective corporate governance.
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`Wearing has written a superb and highly provocative book that does an excellent job of introducing students to theories of corporate governance and exposing complex fact situations in a clear and well-written manner' -
The International Journal of Accounting
With in-depth analysis of nine different cases, several of which have influenced the codes and regulations of corporate behaviour in the UK and America, this book explores the relationship between governance practice and theory.
Each case gives readers the scope to analyze a typical situation, its outcomes, who the main actors were and how they behaved. The book underlines that there are sometimes conflicting views as to what `good' governance is. It will help students clarify their own ideas about why governance fails and what the possible solutions are. Helpful features include:
- Sound and complete coverage of related theory
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- A concluding chapter that draws together key strands of thinking
- Discussion questions
This book will be of interest to higher level undergraduates and MSc/MBA students taking courses in corporate governance or related subjects.
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Ownership and Governance of Enterprises: Recent Innovative Developments (Studies in Development Economics and Policy)
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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ASIN: 1403916330 |
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Conventional wisdom recommends the superiority of private ownership of enterprises. The reality confronts it with a rich diversity in ownership and governance structures. This book examines five types of unorthodox ownership and governance forms emerging in the industrial sector across major economies. It analyses two cases to demonstrate that there are alternative ways to harden budget constraints of state-owned enterprises. It investigates the driving forces behind these evolving dynamics and explores policy implications for developing and transition economies.
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Executive Defense: Shareholder Power and Corporate Reorganization
Michael Useem
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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How should companies be organized? To whom should boards of directors be responsible - shareholders, or a wider group of stakeholders? In this fiercely competitive world we cannot judge our own system of corporate governance in isolation; it must bear comparison with the best. The second edition of this acclaimed and well-established book aims to do just that. Since publication of the first edition interest in corporate governance has greatly increased, codes have proliferated, and principles laid down nationally and internationally. In Keeping Better Company, the author describes developments in the system of corporate governance - both the business environment and the particular structures of company organization - in five major industrial countries: Germany, Japan, France, the USA, and the UK. This second edition is fully revised, updated and expanded, and includes a new conclusion looking at a number of ongoing issues in corporate governance, and an appendix discussing the role of international organizations.
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Who did he talk to in order to get such an insider's view?.......1999-03-17
Although the author is Brittish, his major contribution was to provide such a detailed account of corporate governance practices in Japan, Germany and France where literature is rarer. US and UK summaries are useful if you want to get all the essentials in no more than 40-50 pages. Competing corp. gov. reviews of countries are too superficial compared to this one. For the corp. gov. country analysis I am writing I elected his format as role-model, and his depth and insightfulness as a goal! I just wished I had the same kinds of contacts (in the country I am writing about) Charkham seems to have in ALL 5 countries.
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The UK Financial System: Fourth Edition
Mike Buckle , and
John Thompson
Manufacturer: Manchester University Press
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Substantially revised and updated, this fourth edition presents a comprehensive explanation of the workings of the institutions and markets which make up the UK financial system, and discusses the issues affecting them. It presents key theoretical developments such as asymmetric information, the efficient markets hypothesis, behavioral economics and the term structure of interest rates, thus providing an analytical framework to aid understanding of the institutional structure. Several case studies are provided throughout the book looking at the failure of various financial firms and the lessons that can be learned from these. Examples include Equitable Life, Barings Bank, the Bank of International Credit and Commerce (BCCI) and Long Term Capital Management.
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Financial Accounting UK Standards, Fourth Edition: For May and November 2004 Exams (CIMA Official Study Systems: Intermediate Level (2004 exams))
Tom Rolfe
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ASIN: 0750661119 |
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The fourth edition of CIMA's Official Study Systems is published by Elsevier on behalf of CIMA. Key sections of the 2004 Study Systems are again written by examiners so each text fully reflects what could be tested in the exam.
Updated to incorporate legislative and syllabus changes, the 2004 Study Systems provide complete study material for the May and November 2004 exams. The new edition maintains the popular loose-leaf format and contains topic summaries and recommended reading articles from a range of journals. CIMA's Study Systems are the only books with past papers and examiners answers. Nov 2002 and May 2003 Q&As are included in this edition.
* The official study systems are the only study materials endorsed by CIMA
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Financial Reporting UK Standards, Fourth Edition: For May and November 2004 Exams (CIMA Official Study Systems: Intermediate Level (2004 exams))
Paul Robins , and
Catherine Gowthorpe
Manufacturer: CIMA Publishing
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ASIN: 0750661135 |
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The fourth edition of CIMA's Official Study Systems is published by Elsevier on behalf of CIMA. Key sections of the 2004 Study Systems are again written by examiners so each text fully reflects what could be tested in the exam.
Updated to incorporate legislative and syllabus changes, the 2004 Study Systems provide complete study material for the May and November 2004 exams. The new edition maintains the popular loose-leaf format and contains topic summaries and recommended reading articles from a range of journals. CIMA's Study Systems are the only books with past papers and examiners answers. Nov 2002 and May 2003 Q&As are included in this edition.
* The official study systems are the only study materials endorsed by CIMA
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* Complete integrated package incorporating syllabus guidance, full text, recommended articles, revision guides and extensive question practice including November 2002 and May 2003 question papers and examiners answers
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- Performance-Based Reporting : New Management Tools for Unpredictable Times
- Principles of Accounting: Working Papers for Exercises and Problems, Vol 1, Chapters 1-18 and Appendixes A-C
- Principles of Food, Beverage, and Labor Cost Controls
- Public/Private Finance and Development: Methodology/Deal Structuring/Developer Solicitation
- Quality Financial Reporting
- Quicken 2001 for Macs for Dummies
- Ready Notes for use with Fundamental Managerial Accounting Concepts
- Restaurant Financial Basics
- Sarbanes-Oxley Guide for Finance and Information Technology Professionals
- Solving the Corporate Value Enigma: A System to Unlock Shareholder Value
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