Corporate Governance Failures: The Role of Institutional Investors in the Global Financial Crisis

by Andrew T. Williams and Shyam J. Kamath

Corporate governance, the internal policies and leadership that guide the actions of corporations, played a major part in the recent global financial crisis. While much blame has been targeted at compensation arrangements that rewarded extreme risk-taking but did not punish failure, the performance of large, supposedly sophisticated institutional investors in this crisis has gone for the most part unexamined. Shareholding organizations, such as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243145
• ISBN13: 9780812243147
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"