‘There is no significant difference between the ‘shareholder’ and the ‘stakeholder’ models of corporate governance in terms of being superior at monitoring management behaviour: ultimately, greedy people will always find a way to cheat the system.’ Discuss.
TOPIC 2: ‘There is no significant difference between the ‘shareholder’ and the ‘stakeholder’ models of corporate governance in terms of being superior at monitoring management behaviour: ultimately, greedy people will always find a way to cheat the system.’ Discuss.
· Chang, H-O (2009) 23 Things they don’t tell you about capitalism. London: Penguin.
· Dirty Money (USA, 2018) Series 1. Episode 1: Hard NOx.
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· Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
· Koen, C. I. (2005) Comparative International Management, London: McGraw-Hill. Chapter 6: Comparative Corporate Governance
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· Sorge, A., Noorderhaven, N., and Koen, C. (2015) Comparative International Management. Second Edition. Abingdon: Routledge. Chapter 6: Comparative Corporate Governance
TOPIC 3: ‘Cooperative economies are obviously better than conflictual economies’ Discuss.
· Budd, J. W. (2004a) Achieving Decent Work by Giving Employment and Human Face. Geneva: ILO.
· Budd, J. W. (2004b) Labour Relations: Striking a Balance. NY: McGraw-Hill. Chapter 2: Labour Unions: Good or Bad?
· Gordon, D. M. 1996) Fat and Mean: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial Downsizing, New York: Free Press. Introduction; Chapter 3: The Stick Strategy (pp. 61-94), and Chapter 6: We Take the Low Road (pp. 144-171).
· Human Rights Watch (2000) Unfair Advantage: Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards.
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· Prasch (1998) Corporate Strategy and the American Standard of Living: Reviewing Gordon’s Fat and Mean. Review of Political Economy, 10:1.
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