Perspectives on Corporate Governance [Paperback]

Offers a set of approaches from leading experts, covering the major areas of corporate governance reform and analyzing a range of issues and concerns.This book offers a uniquely diverse and forward-looking set of approaches from leading experts, covering the major areas of corporate governance reform and analyzing the full range of issues and concerns. This volume offers a host of innovative and original suggestions on how corporate governance can continue to improve.This book offers a uniquely diverse and forward-looking set of approaches from leading experts, covering the major areas of corporate governance reform and analyzing the full range of issues and concerns. This volume offers a host of innovative and original suggestions on how corporate governance can continue to improve.The events that began with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and Adelphia and continued into the financial crisis of 2008 teach us an important lesson: corporate governance matters. Although it is widely acknowledged that good corporate governance is a linchpin of good corporate performance, how can one improve corporate governance and its impact on corporate and overall economic performance. This book offers a diverse and forward-looking set of approaches from experts, covering the major areas of corporate governance reform and analyzing the full range of issues and concerns. Written to be both theoretically rigorous and grounded in the real world, the book is well suited for practicing lawyers, managers, lawmakers, and analysts, as well as academics conducting research or teaching a wide range of courses in law schools, business schools, and economics departments.Introduction F. Scott Kieff and Troy A. Paredes; Part I. The Board of Directors and the CEO: 1. The trouble with boards Lawrence E. Mitchell; 2. Rediscovering board expertise: legal implications of the empirical literature Lawrence A. Cunningham; 3. The CEO and the board: on CEO overconfidence and institutionalizing disselÃ&