Corporate Governance and Business Ethics

edited by Alexander Brink

This volume explores corporate governance from three perspectives: a traditional economic, a philosophical, and an integrated business ethics perspective. Corporate governance has enjoyed a long tradition in the English-speaking world of management sciences. Following its traditional understanding it is defined as leadership and control of a firm with the aim of securing the long-term survival and viability of that firm. But recent business scandals and financial crises continue to provide ample cause for concern and have all fuelled interest in the ethical aspects. As a result, corporate gove

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Year of publication:	2011
Other Persons:	Brink, Alexander (ed.)
Publisher:	Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
Subject:	Corporate Governance \| Corporate governance \| Unternehmensethik \| Business ethics \| Stakeholder
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com] ; Description [swbplus.bsz-bw.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (XXVIII, 376 p, online resource)
Series:	Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy ; 39 SpringerLink / Bücher
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references Preface; Corporate Governance and Ethics: An Introduction; Introduction; Traditional Foundations of Corporate Governance; Main Structure and Contributions to This Volume; References; Contents; Contributors; Part I Economic Foundations of Corporate Governance; 1 The Globalisation of Corporate Governance? Irresistible Markets Meet Immovable Institutions; A Universal Corporate Governance System?; Globalisation of Capital Markets; The Growth of Equity Markets; Convergence of Corporate Governance; History and Politics; Law and Regulation; CultureDeep Causation; Institutional Complementarities Diversity in Corporate GovernanceFuture Trends; References; 2 Regulation Complexity and the Costs of Governance; Complex Regulation; The Sarbanes-Oxley Act as an Example; The Economics of Regulation Complexity; The Psychology of Regulation Complexity; Combining Economics and Psychology; What Is Wrong with Sarbanes-Oxley?; Policy Recommendations; References; 3 Corporate Governance as an Institution to Overcome Social Dilemmas; Introduction; Corporate Governance Based on Self-Interest as an Axiom; The Financial Crisis and Corporate Governance Corporate Governance Based on Psychological EconomicsConclusions; References; 4 Scandalous Co-determination; Empirical Research on Co-determination; The Mass Media Discourse on Co-determination; Conclusion; References; 5 Corporate Codes of Ethics: Can Punishments Enhance Their Effectiveness?; Introduction; Literature Review; Design of Proper Punishments; Implications and Conclusion; References; 6 Corporate Governance at the Chinese Stock Market: How It Evolved; Introduction; Backgrounds of the Financial System in China; Corporate Governance in China Governance Practices in Chinese SOEs: Content of ChangeDriving Forces in China's Corporate Governance Evolution: Process of Change; Summary; References; Part II Philosophical Foundations of Corporate Governance; 7 Philosophical Underpinnings to Corporate Governance: A Collibrational Approach; Introduction; Corporate Governance Models, Assumptions and Problems; A Process Philosophy Approach to Corporate Governance; Corporate Governance as Self-Generating Order; From Governance to Governing; Future Research Directions; Methodological Issues; Parting Thoughts; References 8 Aristotelian Corporate GovernanceIntroduction; What Kind of Community Is the Firm?; The Common Good of the Firm; Conclusion: Corporate Governance as Praxis and the Common Good; References; 9 Deliberative Democracy and Corporate Governance; Introduction; Habermas on Discourse Ethics and Deliberative Democracy; Ulrich's Account of the Implications of Discourse Ethics for Corporate Governance; Stakeholder Democracy and Varieties of Capitalism; Four Principles of Stakeholder Capitalism; Conclusion and Summary; References; Part III Corporate Governance and Business Ethics 10 The Firm as a Nexus of Stakeholders: Stakeholder Management and Theory of the Firm
ISBN:	978-94-007-1588-2 ; 978-94-007-1587-5
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-94-007-1588-2 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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