October 1999
Beginner
336 pages
12h 25m
English
At Emap, the fast-growing media company, an extraordinary general meeting had to be called to expel two nonexecutive directors, Professor Ken Simmonds and Joe Cooke, from the board. Earlier the pair had called on the chairman, Sir John Hoskyns, to resign, and although the dispute was positioned by both sides as being purely about matters of corporate governance, it was difficult for impartial observers to escape the conclusion that the men involved simply did not want to have to sit around the same table any more (Lynn, 1997).
At Cable & Wireless (C&W), there was an even more spectacular clash at the close of 1995 between the company's chairman, Lord Young, and chief ...
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