Management accountability and corporate governance / edited by Kenneth Midgley.
Contributor(s): Midgley, Kenneth, B.A.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : MacMillan, 1982Description: xvii, 229 p. ; 23 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0333312007.Subject(s): Corporate governance | Directors of corporationsDDC classification: 658.1Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 658.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00033332 |
Conference papers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Boards and accountability -- The aims and objectives of corporate bodies / Sir Arthur Knight -- Board structures / John B. H. Jackson -- The independent director / Bob Tricker -- The role of the corporate secretary in promoting corporate accountability - a United States view / Harold M. Williams -- To whom should the board be accountable ... and for what? / Kenneth Midgley -- One board or two? / Peter McGregor -- Part II: Shareholders and accountability -- The relationship between public companies and their shareholders / Barry Barker -- The function of ownership and the role of institutional shareholders / Lord Carr of Hadley -- Social responsibility and the institutional investor / T. J. Palmer -- Too much power at the top? / Kevin Page -- Part III: Company reporting and accountability -- Financial accounts - What they do and don't reveal / Susan Dev -- Corporate objectives: the key to financial reporting / C. R. J. Foley -- Part IV: The social responsibility concept -- What is accountability? / Charles E. Medawar -- Analysing corporate social performance: methods and results / Lee E. Preston -- Part V: Accountability to the employee -- A question of disclosure / Arthur Marsh and Roger Rosewell -- Part VI: Accountability and the small company -- The price of limited liability - Accountability and small companies / Michael J. Page.