The current model of corporate governance needs reform. There is mounting evidence that the practices of shareholder primacy drive company directors and executives to adopt the same short time horizon as financial markets. Pressure to meet the demands of the financial markets drives stock...

Adolf A. Berle, Jr. is widely regarded to be the intellectual pioneer of corporate governance as a field of academic inquiry. The seminal text which he co-authored with Gardner Means in 1932, The Modern Corporation and Private Property, is today still regarded by many scholars as the most...

Over the past three decades, the topic of corporate governance has become an increasingly high profile aspect of social-scientific scholarship, both in the Anglo-Saxon world and continental Europe. To a significant extent, however, the conceptual boundaries of the corporate governance debate...

It is well known that recent decades have seen an explosion in levels of senior executive remuneration in public companies, both in absolute terms and in relative terms to ordinary worker pay. However, a conspicuous corresponding trend over recent years has been the development of a range of...

This paper reconsiders the orthodox Anglo-American understanding of labour as a constituency situated outside of the core corporate governance domain. It challenges the dominant neo-classical theory of the firm, which asserts that shareholders are in general the only group of ‘incomplete’...

Dual class stock (DCS) structures, and their implications for managerial accountability and corporate governance more broadly, have become prevalent concerns for corporate lawyers and policymakers. Recent academic and practitioner debates on DCS have tended to focus less on the general merits...