Corporate Governance: Principles, Policies, and Practices

By Bob Tricker

From the 'father of corporate governance' comes the new edition of this bestselling text, designed to equip students with a sound understanding of the frameworks that govern organizations. It offers comprehensive coverage of key principles combined with a strong practical focus through a clear three-part structure.

This fourth edition provides a new focus for understanding corporate governance that goes far beyond the regulations, rules, and voluntary codes: it has a new emphasis throughout on culture. For the first time, a distinction is drawn between Western and Eastern perceptions of corporate governance, and new cases from China (including Huawei) further support this new approach.

The book is supported by an extensive range of online resources:
iFor students: /i
Additional information on cases
Suggested further reading and research tips
Corporate Governance Blog
Web links
Corporate Governance codes around the world
Answers to self-test questions

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PowerPoint slides
Additional case studies
Group exercises
Teaching notes for the case studies in the book
Teaching notes for the projects in the book

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198809867
• ISBN13: 9780198809869
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

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Corporate Governance: Principles, Policies and Practices Bob Tricker helped introduce many of us to corporate governance as a field. His 1984 long out of print, Corporate Governance: Practices, Procedures and Powers in British Companies and their Boards of Directors was first to include the phrase "corporate governance" in the title. His definition of the term, even then, was spot-on: "The governance role is not concerned with the running of the company, per se, but with giving overall direction to the enterprise, with overseeing and controlling the executive actions of management and with satisfying legitimate expectations of accountability and regulation by interests beyond the corporate boundaries." Twenty-five years later, Tricker updates his opus. Tricker notes in his introduction that, "Some teachers, particularly those working with students without a lot of business experience, might prefer to build their courses from theory to practice. This is quite feasible, not least since to date the theories of corporate governance, other than a broad concept of agency, have not contributed significantly to its development. The underlying paradigms have been derived from company law and the codes of good practice have emerged as responses to corporate catastrophe and collapse." Thus, readers can see at the outset, Tricker is a realist. Anyone familiar with his work knows he has certainly tried to build the discipline. Corporate Governance: An International Review was his effort to publish cutting-edge research in comparative corporate governance in hopes of building theory and practice on rigorous science. Tricker has often proclaimed the 19th century the entrepreneur's, 20th century management's, and 21st that of governance. We certainly see focus swinging to questions of legitimacy and effectiveness in wielding power worldwide. By the time the 22nd century dawns, corporate power may actually be exercised "in a way that ensures both the effective performance and appropriate social accountability and responsibility... rooted in rigorous and replicable research," as Tricker envisions. If it happens, it will be in no small part due to Tricker's contribution. I was delighted to see my website, corpgov.net, listed as the first of many useful websites at the end of each chapter. Tricker generally takes a very measured approach to his subject, providing the latest advice on principles, policies and practices, balancing all perspectives worth attention. However, when it comes to grounding praxis in the results of research, he is passionate. For example, in discussing the future of corporate governance reporting, he predicts, "The current box ticking approach to simple structural questions will be replaced by performance measures against corporate governance criteria. The reports will also provide independent and objective opinions on the caliber of directors and boards, and on the quality of corporate governance, in the same way that auditors now report