Jordi Canals

Building Respected Companies (eBook, PDF)

Rethinking Business Leadership and the Purpose of the Firm

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Produktbeschreibung

The current financial crisis has deep macroeconomic roots, but the dominant view of the firm has made the crisis deeper and more devastating. Over the past few decades, maximizing shareholder value has become the main objective of the firm. Chief executives have been keen on this objective because their economic incentives have been clearly associated with stock market performance. Unfortunately, this has driven many CEOs to make terrible decisions based on short-termism and greed. In this way, the firm has become the object of anger, criticism and cynicism. In Building Respected Companies, Jordi Canals argues that we must address this problem by developing companies that serve society, not just their shareholders. This requires a new perspective of what a firm is, what the purpose of the firm in society should be and what the role of the board of directors and senior executives should be.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511921988
• Artikelnr.: 38186153

Autorenporträt

Jordi Canals is the Dean and Professor of General Management at IESE Business School. His areas of interest are corporate governance, globalization and corporate strategy. He is the author of thirteen books, including Universal Banks (1996) and Managing Corporate Growth (2000). A Fulbright Fellow, he was a research fellow at Harvard Business School and a guest scholar at The Brookings Institution and the World Bank. He was also a member of the task force on corporate governance in Spain (2002-2003).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Corporate Crisis, Leadership and Governance: 1. Financial crisis. Leadership crisis?
Part II. Rethinking the Purpose of the Firm: 2. The firm's mission and purpose
3. The firm as a respected institution
Part III. The Role of Corporate Governance in Developing a Respected Company: 4. Nature, goals and models of corporate governance
5. Responsible firms
Part IV. Leading and Growing a Respected Company: 6. The board of directors at work: impact beyond regulation
7. The chief executive: reputation beyond charisma
8. The role of the chief executive in developing the company as a respected institution
Index.