The Geography of Finance: Corporate Governance in the Global Marketplace
Gordon L. Clark and Dariusz Wójcik
Abstract
This book tackles crucial issues regarding the emerging global market for corporate governance. The authors describe and explain the transformation of European corporate governance in the light of the imperatives driving global financial markets, using an innovative analytical framework. They chart the response of corporate managers to the interest of global portfolio managers in transparent and accountable modes of corporate governance. In doing so, the authors provide an innovative perspective on a rapidly changing environment, and a challenge to those who ignore the gathering momentum of gl ... More
This book tackles crucial issues regarding the emerging global market for corporate governance. The authors describe and explain the transformation of European corporate governance in the light of the imperatives driving global financial markets, using an innovative analytical framework. They chart the response of corporate managers to the interest of global portfolio managers in transparent and accountable modes of corporate governance. In doing so, the authors provide an innovative perspective on a rapidly changing environment, and a challenge to those who ignore the gathering momentum of global financial markets.
Keywords:
global market,
transformation,
European corporate governance,
imperatives,
global financial markets,
analytical framework,
corporate managers
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199213368 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199213368.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Gordon L. Clark, author
Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Dariusz Wójcik, author
Research Associate, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
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