October 2025
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
17h 42m
English
Overview
The Definitive Guide to High-Performance Corporate Governance
Fully updated to reflect the latest research, trends, and regulations, Corporate Governance Matters, Fourth Edition, is the definitive resource for anyone seeking to improve corporate governance practices--from directors and institutional investors to policymakers and researchers. This edition offers comprehensive, objective insights grounded in rigorous analysis and real-world examples, covering new discussions on ESG ratings, stakeholder interests, CEO behavior, and artificial intelligence.
David Larcker and Brian Tayan examine today's most pressing governance challenges, including board effectiveness, shareholder activism, organizational risk, and systemic breakdowns. Their empirical, non-ideological approach helps readers understand the impact of governance structures and processes on organizational performance, equipping them to make informed decisions in an increasingly complex environment.
Extensively revised coverage of:
International corporate governance
Compensation, equity ownership, incentives, and the labor market for CEOs
Optimal board structure, tradeoffs, and consequences
Governance, organizational strategy, business models, and risk management
Succession planning
Alternative corporate governance structures, including family controlled businesses, nonprofits, private equity, and venture capital
Financial reporting and external audit
The market for corporate control
Roles of institutional and activist shareholders
Governance ratings, and more
Features:
Objectively and fully addresses every component of governance, with no axe to grind: explains what's known and what isn't, helping leaders make better choices in the face of uncertainty
Brings together new academic research, updated examples and statistics, and a complete decision-making framework
Includes expanded discussions of environmental and social issues in governance, board effectiveness, CEO succession and compensation, cyber risk, and shareholder activism
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