Executive Defense: Shareholder Power and Corporate Reorganization

by Michael Useem

Book Overview

A quiet revolution came to corporate America during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Large shareholders--pension funds, insurance companies, money manages, and commercial banks--exercised new-found muscle, pressuring senior managers to improve disappointing financial results by reshaping their organization. Michael Useem reveals how those investor pressures have transformed the inside structures of many corporations, better aligning them with shareholder...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674273982
• ISBN13: 9780674273986
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"