- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
Corporate Governance 4219-ICGk9-OG
Greater investor protection lowers the cost of capital and results in greater financial development and economic growth. As a result, countries are searching for a set of ”standards” including governance practices, rules and regulations that will promote private sector development. In Europe, Asia and Latin America, much of the governance debate focuses on protecting small investors from the actions of large, controlling shareholders. In the United States, the debate focuses in particular on the failure of many boards to protect outside investors from powerful corporate managers. The course will focus upon areas such as asset tunneling in corporate pyramidal structures, hostile takeovers and the failure of the market for corporate control, mutual fund governance, executive compensation policies, corporate transparency and the value of the shareholder vote. Students will be expected to research corporate governance issues in selected companies and countries, and then to project the extent to which increasing international capital flows causes governance systems to converge towards a global standard.
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
This course will introduce the graduate students to how firm value depends on corporate governance practises and investor protection around the world. Students who complete this course successfully should appreciate more fully how to measure good corporate governance, effective corporate leadership, and shareholder value together with corporate culture.
Assessment criteria
Grading for this online course will be apportioned as follows:
20% Weekly Discussion
20% First Examination
20% Final Examination: NOTE: The Final Examination will have to be onsite at American Studies Center.
40% Term Paper
Bibliography
Required Readings.
Monks, Robert A.G. and Nell Minow. 2011. Corporate Governance. New York: Wiley. https://books.google.com/books?id=6DpavNI1wXEC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
David A. Jones. 2019. “Value Chain Planning: Assessing Demand Signals in an International Environment,” International Journal of Management, IT, and Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 10, 60-69.
Oct. http://www.ijmra.us/project%20doc/2019/IJMIE_OCTOBER2019/IJMRA-16169.pdf
David A. Jones. 2018. “America Incorporated: Movement of Assets by Companies Chartered in the United States Across the World and Back Home,” European Journal of Business & Management Research, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1-7. Feb. http://ejbmr.org/index.php/ejbmr/article/view/16/9
David A. Jones and Hanzhen Liu. 2017. “Searching for the Tao? Reexamining Modern Changes in Asian Management: Characteristics and Significance,” International Journal of Business & General Management, Vol. 6, No. 5, 119-134. Aug/Sep.
https://www.scribd.com/document/361294619/13-IJBGM-Searching-for-the-Tao-David-a-Jones
David A. Jones. 2015. Four Eagles and a Dragon: Successes and Failures of Quixotic Encirclement in Foreign Policy, An Analysis. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc. 394 pp. ISBN 9 789385 436826.
http://asc.uw.edu.pl/faculty_publications/four-eagles-and-dragon-cover-introduction-chapter-seven.pdf
David A. Jones. 2014.“Quid pro Quo: Dependent Relative Revocation and Quixotix Military Dis-encirclement,” Studia Europejskie, Vol. 17, No. 4, 99-120.
http://www.ce.uw.edu.pl/pliki/pw/4
-2014_jones.pdf
David A. Jones. 2014. “The Management of Trade for International Security: An Analysis of Some Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of theTransatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership,” International Journal of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 3, 499-507.
David A. Jones. 2014. “On the Road Away from Mandalay: Heading West along the ‘Silk Road’ as China Moves its Investments into Europe,” Journal of Business and Economics, Vol. 5, No.
6, 787-801. Jun. http://www.academicstar.us/UploadFile/Picture/2014-9/20149169253145.pdf
David A. Jones and Hanzhen Liu. 2014. "Balanced Discourses? China’s Ancientand Modern Confucian Heritage Reflected in Historical andContemporary Chinese Foreign Economic Policies," Journal of Business and Economics, Vol. 5, No. 3, 249-265. Mar.
David A. Jones. 2013. “Trans-Cultural Leadership Architecture: Implications for an Effective Eurasian Trading Partnership,” International Journal of Information and Intercultural Management, Vol. 3, No. 3, 242-255.
http://www.inderscience.com/offer.php?id=57740
David A. Jones. 2013. “Avoidance of ‘Landslides’ West of Karakoram: Projected Successes and Failures of China’s Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe,” in Chopra, Rakesh, Puri, Sandeep, Ranjan, Jayanthi, Malhotra, Gunjan, eds. 2013. Beyond Norms: Management for Excellence. London: Bloomsbury, 51-59.
David A. Jones. 2013. “Avoiding Foreign Deceptive Investment: Lawfully and Legitimately Structuring Asian Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Central and Eastern Europe,” ASM International Journal of Ongoing Research in Management and IT,” Issue 1, INCON13-Fin-032, 1-12. Jan.
David A. Jones. 2012. “China’s New Grand Strategy for Europe: What China’s 10 Billion Dollar Projected Enterprise Cooperation Will Mean for Central and Eastern Europe, for China Itself, and for the World,” Transnational Corporations Review 4:4, 85-97. Dec.
David A. Jones. 2012. “Caveat Emptor: Conflict of Laws, Banking, Competition, Subsidies and Other Issues of International, European Union, and Local Laws that Parent and Host Country Nationals Should Understand Before Undertaking Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Europe,” Bharati Law Review 1:2, 39-58. Pune, India. November/December 2012.
Recommended Readings.
Chew, Donald and Stuart L. Gillan, eds. Corporate Governance at the Crossroads: A Book of Readings.
New York: 2005, Irwin McGraw Hill.
Colley, John L., Jacqueline L. Doyle, Wallace Stettinius, George Logan. Corporate Governance. New York: 2d ed 2003, Irwin McGraw Hill.
Kim, Kenneth A. and John R. Nofsinger. Corporate Governance. New York: 2006, Pearson Prentice Hall.
Piketty, Thomas, and Arthur Goldhammer. Capital in the twenty-First Century. Boston: 2014, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Corporate Governance Websites .
Bayer
http://www.bayer.com/en/Corporate-Governance.aspx
JDSU
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=105112&p=irol-govHighlights
PDL BioPharma
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=100463&p=irol-govhighlights
Siemens
http://w1.siemens.com/investor/en/corporate_governance.htm
Public Sector
OECD
http://www.oecd.org/topic/0,3373,en_2649_37439_1_1_1_1_37439,00.html
Corporate Governance, Many Links
http://www.corpgov.net/links/links.html
CorpGov.net
http://corpgov.net/wordpress/
Additional information
Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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