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Everything you need to know about corporate governance and being a director - most accessibly presented and attractively packaged. Replacing the long-running pocket series, this new Economist essential A-Z series is launched in Spring 2003 in a strikingly attractive paper back format, with flaps and distinctive red end papers. Following an introduction on the great shift in attitudes regarding the role of directors as a result of accusations of fat cattery and scandals involving firms like Enron, WorldCom and Andersen, to name but a few, the bulk of the book is a much expanded A-Z with several hundred entries that explain the essentials of corporate governance and the function and responsibilities of directors. Entries include: Agency theory, Audit Committee, Board structure, Board style , Conformance roles, Core competences, Corporate veil, Cross holding, Crown jewels, Deep pocket syndrome, Descent from Heaven, Directors' remuneration, Disclosure, Ethics, Fiduciary duty, Games directors play, Helicopter vision, Indemnity insurance, Induction programme, Industry analysis, Inside information, Japanese corporate governance, Keiretsu, Litigation, Log rolling, Mentor, Monitoring management, Non-executive director, Outside director, Performance roles, Poison pill, Policy making, Quorum, Relationship investor, Remuneration committee, Shareholder value, Stakeholder theory, Stewardship theory, Tokenism, Two hat dilemma, Unitary board, Voting rights, War room, Yakusa, and Zaibatsu Also included as appendices are: * Checklists, good practice guidelines and sources of information.
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Dr. R. I. (Bob) Tricker served on the Councils of the Institutes of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Management Accountants. After a few years as a financial controller in industry, and study at Harvard and Oxford Universities, he became professor of information systems at Warwick University, then Director of the Oxford Centre for Management Studies (now the Säid Business School, Oxford) and a Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, where his research led to the first book with the title Corporate Governance (1984). He was then appointed Hong Kong University Business School's Professor of Finance.
His first corporate governance book was The Independent Director(1978). Subsequently, he wrote International Corporate Governance - text, cases and readings (1994), and edited Corporate Governance(2000) for the Ashcroft History of Management Thought. He was founder-editor of Corporate Governance - an international review. His latest books are Directors - an A-Z of corporate governance, the fifth edition of the Economist Pocket Director and Corporate Governance - principles, policies and practices, Oxford University Press, 2009.
He holds Honorary Professorships of three universities, has been involved in corporate governance developments in Hong Kong, China, and Russia, and consults, teaches and writes on corporate governance around the world.
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