AW ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MAIR EQUAL THAN ITHERS It didnae seem unco when Napoleon wis seen daunderin aboot the fairmhoose gairden wi a pipe in his mooth... Frae the instant o its first publication ower seeventy year syne, Animal Fairm, in mony weys, has come tae be oor socio-political urtext – oor wan-singer-wan-sang, oor collective pairty piece, the script we’re doomed tae keep repeatin... George Orwell’s faur-kent novel Animal Fairm, yin o Time magazine’s 100 brawest English-leid novels o aw time, has been translatit intae Scots for the verra first time by Thomas Clark.  When the animals o Manor Fairm cast aff thirldom an tak control frae Mr Jones, they hae howps for a life o freedom an equality. But when the pigs Napoleon and Snawbaw rise tae pouer, the ither animals find oot that they’re mebbe no aw as equal as they’d aince thocht. A tragic political allegory described by Orwell as bein ‘the history o a revolution that went wrang’, this buik is as relevant noo – if no mair sae – as when it wis first set oot.

This critical work explores the central dynamic of industrial capitalism - the cycle of brilliant innovation, catastrophic crisis, and the painful process of corporate governance reform. Coverage includes cycles of crisis and regulation, financial bubbles, including the global financial crisis, and digital disruption. Finally, the current crisis of industry induced climate change that now imperils the world is considered. Corporate Governance: Cycles of Innovation, Crisis and Reform is essential reading for final year undergraduate and postgraduate students of Corporate Governance, International Business and Business and Management Studies. Thomas Clarke is Emeritus Professor of Management at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and an international corporate governance expert.

For decades, Europe has sought to become more financially integrated with the United States and thus European legal institutions, regulatory, governance and accounting practices have faced pressures to adapt to international competitive markets. Against this backdrop, European corporate governance systems have been criticized as being less efficient than the Anglo-American market based systems. This textbook examines the unique dimensions and qualities of European corporate governance. Reforms of key institutions, the doctrine of shareholder value and the seemingly irresistible growth of CEO power and reward are critically analyzed. The book brings out the richness of European corporate governance systems, as well as highlighting historical weaknesses that will require further work for a sustainable corporate governance environment in the future. In light of the most severe financial crisis since the 1930s, this intelligent look at European corporate governance is a vital textbook for courses on corporate governance and a great supplementary textbook on a host of business, management and accounting classes.

Concise, expert review of a key research topic Saves time for early-career researchers and established researchers moving to a new area Covers key contributions from a range of thinkers and approaches

Corporate governance mechanisms are recognised as the critical fulcrum of business and management decision-making, with a deep impact not only upon corporate performance but economic prosperity and social well-being. Controversies in corporate governance have seized the public imagination concerning issues such as corporate collapse, executive compensation, the security of superannuation funds, and mergers and takeovers. Corporate governance is a relatively new field, but has now moved from the margins to the mainstream of business and management education. However, discovering the origins and foundations of corporate governance involves a lengthy search through law, finance, economics, accounting and management journals. Most of the original and essential corporate governance literature is therefore highly dispersed and often inaccessible to business and management students today. This unique collection brings together this widely dispersed material for the first time, providing students and researchers in corporate governance with an unrivalled research resource.

Thomas Clarke’s International Corporate Governance offers a panoramic guide to corporate governance and examines the recurring crises in governance and the reform around the world. This is a popular classic book but significant changes have been made to this new edition to take account of: the continuing impact of the global financial crisis and the wave of regulation development flowing from this the profound consequences of climate change and the urgent need for corporations to respond with the commitment to sustainable value creation Important elements of the work include: contemporary governance failures including BP, VW, Boeing, GM/Tesla, Apple, Purdue Pharma, and Theranos the ongoing vitality of the diversity of corporate governance across the world digital disruption in capital markets and initiatives to build long term investment the universal impact of financialisation and resulting increasing inequality the essential logic of corporate governance and corporate sustainability. The textbook contains a wealth of pedagogical material to guide the reader through this complex subject, with student questions to help with assessments and new companion website. There are 14 new forensic case analyses critically scrutinising governance failures. International Corporate Governance is an essential text for those studying corporate governance at the advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, or executive level.

For decades, Europe has sought to become more financially integrated with the United States and thus European legal institutions, regulatory, governance and accounting practices have faced pressures to adapt to international competitive markets. Against this backdrop, European corporate governance systems have been criticized as being less efficient than the Anglo-American market based systems. This textbook examines the unique dimensions and qualities of European corporate governance. Reforms of key institutions, the doctrine of shareholder value and the seemingly irresistible growth of CEO power and reward are critically analyzed. The book brings out the richness of European corporate governance systems, as well as highlighting historical weaknesses that will require further work for a sustainable corporate governance environment in the future. In light of the most severe financial crisis since the 1930s, this intelligent look at European corporate governance is a vital textbook for courses on corporate governance and a great supplementary textbook on a host of business, management and accounting classes.

From being a subject at the margins of finance, economics, accounting, law and management, corporate governance is now becoming a subject of more central concern to each of these disciplines, and increasingly is regarded as a subject that is at the heart of business and management studies. This book brings together the most influential writing in corporate governance drawn from finance, economics, accounting, law and management in an integrative and interdisciplinary way.
Intended as a companion volume to International Corporate Governance that surveys the global development of corporate governance policy and practice, this book Theories of Governance provides a valuable grounding in the classical theories underpinning contemporary analysis of corporate governance:
* The origins of the modern business enterprise
* The separation of ownership and control
* How economic activity is organized through firms
* The managerial revolution in business
* Agency problems of managers representing investors
* Risk management and the conception of the company as a series of transactions
* Shareholder value as the ultimate objective and measure of corporate success
* Managerial hegemony and nominal boards of directors
* Stewardship theory and company board performance
* Stakeholder theory and the conception of the company as a set of relationships
* The globalization of corporations, equity markets, and corporate governance
* Convergence and divergence in corporate governance systems
* The impact of corporate objectives upon corporate stakeholders

Has privatization worked in practice? Only recently has sufficient empirical evidence become available to answer this question. Earlier studies of privatization have, by necessity, been largely concerned with a theoretical analysis of privatization policy. The Political Economy of Privatization draws together substantial evidence and analysis of the experience of privatization programmes in practice over the last ten years. The authors assess the different means of implementing privatization policies and analyse the impact on the economy. The work is an international study of the extensive privatization of the public sector of the advanced industrial countries; the rapid marketization of the East European countries; and the pressures upon developing countries to adopt re-regulation and privatization as the route towards economic growth. The results demonstrate that, far from being a uniform process, privatization can take many forms - from wholesale denationalization to the contracting of competitive tendering.

In The Political Economy of Privatization the authors assess the success of privatization. The work is an international study of the extensive privatization, and the pressure towards privatization, in different parts of the world. The book includes:
* A study of the relationship between ownership and performance;
* An assessment of the importance of market structure and regulation;
* A discussion of privatization strategies within the public sector;
* Individual country case-studies, looking at the experience of different countries engaged in the contrasting approaches to privatization.
* A critical assessment of the much vaunted relationship between ownership and efficiency.

This book promotes the creation of advanced knowledge-based economies driven by innovation networks and the continuous development of human capital and capability. It provides valuable insights into the growing emergence of knowledge-based industries of the Asia Pacific, and highlights research on: modes of creativity and innovation; intellectual property; the components of national innovation systems such as firms, education and training; knowledge and technical infrastructure; and public policy. The Asia Pacific region is currently in the process of transforming from being the manufacturing centre of the global economy to a centre of innovation for the knowledge economy, with the successful IPO of Alibaba in 2014 being a prime example of this shift. From a neo-Schumpeterian perspective, the region is increasingly engaged in shortening and intensifying cycles of innovation. The historic agreement at the Beijing APEC meeting between China and the US to radically reduce carbon emissions indicates that one imperative of this innovation is to contribute to sustainability. The fact that the US Government is moving away from this historic commitment, while the Chinese Government is endorsing the commitment, indicates an emerging opportunity for Asia to lead the world technologically in a vital industrial sector of the future.

This book promotes the creation of advanced knowledge-based economies driven by innovation networks and the continuous development of human capital and capability. It provides valuable insights into the growing emergence of knowledge-based industries of the Asia Pacific, and highlights research on: modes of creativity and innovation; intellectual property; the components of national innovation systems such as firms, education and training; knowledge and technical infrastructure; and public policy. The Asia Pacific region is currently in the process of transforming from being the manufacturing centre of the global economy to a centre of innovation for the knowledge economy, with the successful IPO of Alibaba in 2014 being a prime example of this shift. From a neo-Schumpeterian perspective, the region is increasingly engaged in shortening and intensifying cycles of innovation. The historic agreement at the Beijing APEC meeting between China and the US to radically reduce carbon emissions indicates that one imperative of this innovation is to contribute to sustainability. The fact that the US Government is moving away from this historic commitment, while the Chinese Government is endorsing the commitment, indicates an emerging opportunity for Asia to lead the world technologically in a vital industrial sector of the future.

From being a subject at the margins of finance, economics, accounting, law and management, corporate governance is now becoming a subject of more central concern to each of these disciplines, and increasingly is regarded as a subject that is at the heart of business and management studies. This book brings together the most influential writing in corporate governance drawn from finance, economics, accounting, law and management in an integrative and interdisciplinary way.
Intended as a companion volume to International Corporate Governance that surveys the global development of corporate governance policy and practice, this book Theories of Governance provides a valuable grounding in the classical theories underpinning contemporary analysis of corporate governance:
* The origins of the modern business enterprise
* The separation of ownership and control
* How economic activity is organized through firms
* The managerial revolution in business
* Agency problems of managers representing investors
* Risk management and the conception of the company as a series of transactions
* Shareholder value as the ultimate objective and measure of corporate success
* Managerial hegemony and nominal boards of directors
* Stewardship theory and company board performance
* Stakeholder theory and the conception of the company as a set of relationships
* The globalization of corporations, equity markets, and corporate governance
* Convergence and divergence in corporate governance systems
* The impact of corporate objectives upon corporate stakeholders

This critical work explores the central dynamic of industrial capitalism - the cycle of brilliant innovation, catastrophic crisis, and the painful process of corporate governance reform. Coverage includes cycles of crisis and regulation, financial bubbles, including the global financial crisis, and digital disruption. Finally, the current crisis of industry induced climate change that now imperils the world is considered. Corporate Governance: Cycles of Innovation, Crisis and Reform is essential reading for final year undergraduate and postgraduate students of Corporate Governance, International Business and Business and Management Studies. Thomas Clarke is Emeritus Professor of Management at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and an international corporate governance expert.

Thomas Clarke’s International Corporate Governance offers a panoramic guide to corporate governance and examines the recurring crises in governance and the reform around the world. This is a popular classic book but significant changes have been made to this new edition to take account of: the continuing impact of the global financial crisis and the wave of regulation development flowing from this the profound consequences of climate change and the urgent need for corporations to respond with the commitment to sustainable value creation Important elements of the work include: contemporary governance failures including BP, VW, Boeing, GM/Tesla, Apple, Purdue Pharma, and Theranos the ongoing vitality of the diversity of corporate governance across the world digital disruption in capital markets and initiatives to build long term investment the universal impact of financialisation and resulting increasing inequality the essential logic of corporate governance and corporate sustainability. The textbook contains a wealth of pedagogical material to guide the reader through this complex subject, with student questions to help with assessments and new companion website. There are 14 new forensic case analyses critically scrutinising governance failures. International Corporate Governance is an essential text for those studying corporate governance at the advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, or executive level.