Fair Shares: The Future of Shareholder Power and Responsibility
Jonathan Charkham and Anne Simpson
Abstract
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. The book explores the key current corporate governance issues — company law and reporting, chief executive pay, regulatory and accountability requirements — against the background of an ever-changing business environment: an environment in which private investors may have grown in number, but in which shareholders influence has dwindled as institutions have b ... More
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. The book explores the key current corporate governance issues — company law and reporting, chief executive pay, regulatory and accountability requirements — against the background of an ever-changing business environment: an environment in which private investors may have grown in number, but in which shareholders influence has dwindled as institutions have become the dominant shareholding group. Throughout the book provides numerous examples and anecdotes illustrating the evolution of the joint stock company from the South Sea Company of the 18th century to the giants and cause celebres on the corporate stage in the 1980s and 1990s.
Keywords:
shareholders,
shareholder rights,
shareholder responsibilities,
corporate governance issues,
company law,
chief executive pay,
regulatory requirements,
accountability requirements
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1999 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198292142 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198292142.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Jonathan Charkham, author
City University, London
Anne Simpson, author
PIRC Ltd (Pensions Investment Research Consultants)
More
Less
