Research Catalog

Title

Fair shares : the future of shareholder power and responsibility / Jonathan Charkham and Anne Simpson.

Author

Charkham, Jonathan P.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Simpson, Anne.

Description

vii, 275 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• This is a book about shareholders - who they are, what they own, how their composition and character has changed, and with it their relationship with the companies they 'own'.
• It is also a book about shareholder rights and responsibilities.

Subject

• Stockholders
• Stock ownership
• Corporations > Investor relations
• Corporate governance
• Corporate governance
• Corporations > Investor relations
• Stock ownership
• Stockholders
• Aktionär
• Anteilseigner
• Investor Relations
• Corporate Governance
• Aandeelhouders
• Bedrijfsbeleid
• shareholder
• responsibility
• ownership
• management
• private enterprise
• share
• financial market
• state intervention
• regulation
• company law
• access to information
• voting
• bank
• saving
• private investment
• enterprise takeover
• workers stock ownership
• top management
• wages
• disclosure of information
• multinational enterprise
• pension fund
• administrative aspect
• statistical table
• Actionnaires
• Gouvernement d'entreprise
• actionnaire
• responsabilité
• propriété
• gestion
• entreprise privée
• action
• marché financier
• intervention de l'Etat
• réglementation
• droit des sociétés
• accès à l'information
• vote
• banque
• épargne
• investissement privé
• reprise d'entreprise
• actionnariat ouvrier
• cadres supérieurs
• salaire
• divulgation de l'information
• entreprise multinationale
• fonds de pensions
• aspect administratif
• tableau statistique
• accionista
• responsabilidad moral
• propiedad
• administración
• empresa privada
• acción
• mercado financiero
• intervención estatal
• reglamento
• ley de sociedades
• acceso a la información
• votación
• banco
• ahorro
• inversiones privadas
• absorción de empresa
• participación obrera por acciones
• alta dirección
• salario
• divulgación de la información
• empresa multinacional
• fondo de jubilaciones
• aspecto administrativo
• cuadros estadísticos
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
• Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• bibliographie.
• bibliografía.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-265) and index.

Contents

• 12. Power: The Greasy Pole -- 13. The Rise of the Institutions -- 14. The Legal Obligations of Institutional Shareholders -- 15. Investment Strategy and Governance -- 16. The Institutions: Combined Action -- 17. Remuneration.
• 18. Disclosure -- 19. The International Dimension -- 20. The AGM -- 21. The Obligations of Significant Ownership -- 22. Guarding the Guards -- 23. A Summary of Proposals for Reform.
• 5. Directors: The Legal Framework -- 6. Shareholders: The Legal Framework -- 7. The Role of Banks -- 8. The Ownership of Companies -- 9. Shares as a Home for Savings -- 10. The Private Shareholder -- 11. Narrower Share Ownership.
• App. 1. Report of the Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance (Cadbury Code) -- App. 2. Directors' Remuneration: Report of a Study Group Chaired by Sir Richard Greenbury (Greenbury Code).
• App. 3. Committee on Corporate Governance -- App. 4. List of IFMA Members as at 1 July 1997 -- App. 5. Extracts from IFMA Fund Management Survey 1997.
• Introduction: Why a Book about Shareholders? -- 1. The Purpose of the Company -- 2. The Role of shareholders in the UK -- 3. The World of Regulation -- 4. The Development of the Joint Stock Company.

ISBN

• 0198292147
• 9780198292142

LCCN

99027049

OCLC

• ocm41211441
• 41211441
• SCSB-1032935

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library