Political Power and Corporate Control: The New Global Politics of Corporate Governance

by Peter A. Gourevitch and James Shinn

Book Overview

Why does corporate governance--front page news with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat--vary so dramatically around the world? This book explains how politics shapes corporate governance--how managers, shareholders, and workers jockey for advantage in setting the rules by which companies are run, and for whom they are run. It combines a clear theoretical model on this political interaction, with statistical evidence from thirty-nine countries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691122911
• ISBN13: 9780691122915
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"