"The Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance"
Selected as NetLibrary eBook of the Month
Monthly content promotion provides free access to new and notable releases
BOULDER, COLO. — NetLibrary, in partnership with Palgrave Macmillan, is pleased to offer free online access to the full text of "The Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance" June 1-30. Selected as NetLibrary's June eBook of the Month, "The Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance" will be provided with unlimited access to more than 8,700 member libraries throughout the world.
Written by renowned corporate governance experts Paul MacAvoy and Ira M. Millstein, "The Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance" argues that two major crises have overtaken governance of the American corporation — the loss of competitiveness in the 1980s and the loss of investor trust in financial management in the late 1990s. The authors use a scholar-practitioner approach to show what is missing in today's corporate governance and to support a case for activating the board of directors, with leadership from an independent chair, to put new controls on management and take responsibility for the result.
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PAUL MACAVOY has divided his career activities among research and teaching, government service, and corporate governance. The former Dean and now the Williams Brothers Professor of Management Studies at the Yale School of Management, he has been a member of President Ford's Council of Economic Advisors and was personal economic advisor to George W. Bush before his election (where he gained notoriety as inventor of the term "voodoo economics"). Professor MacAvoy is the author of 20 books and numerous journal articles focusing on government regulation of the structure and conduct of the corporation.
IRA M. MILLSTEIN has been at the forefront of this era's corporate governance movement since its inception. He is Senior Partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, an international law firm of over one thousand lawyers with offices in seven countries. He has counseled on corporate governance matters for more than 50 public and philanthropic boards, from General Motors to Tyco.
Palgrave Macmillan (http://www.palgrave.com/) is a global academic publisher serving learning and scholarship in the fields of higher education and in professional markets. It has an established and distinguished track record of international academic publishing with considerable strength in the humanities, social sciences, and business. It aims to be the academic publisher of choice for authors and customers around the world.
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