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B025871 - CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
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Course Content
Suggested readings
Prerequisites
Course program
Academic Year 2019-20
Coorte 2018 - Second Cycle Degree in ECONOMIC SCIENCES
Course year
Second year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Economics and Management (DISEI)
Modulo Generico of
Scientific Area
SECS-P/08 - MANAGEMENT
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
48
Teaching Term
16/09/2019 ⇒ 09/12/2019
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B018872 - CORPORATE GOVERNANCE - MOD. I
Second Cycle Degree in MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
B018872 - CORPORATE GOVERNANCE - MOD. I
Second Cycle Degree in MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course focuses on the way companies are directed and controlled.
It develops the awareness of the problems associated with the interaction of the board, CEO and management, shareholders, and other stakeholders of a corporation.
This course presents a set of instruments that can be used by boards to offer effective strategic direction and control to their organization.
It develops the awareness of the problems associated with the interaction of the board, CEO and management, shareholders, and other stakeholders of a corporation.
This course presents a set of instruments that can be used by boards to offer effective strategic direction and control to their organization.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Reading required:
Marc Georgen (2018), Corporate Governance: A Global Perspective. Cengage Learning EMEA.
Others readings required:
1. Paci A. (2010), “La crisi al tempo della globalizzazione”. In Fitoussi J., Ginefra P., Masera R., A. Paci, Roma G., Spaventa L., Letta E., Fare i conti con la crisi. il Mulino. [pp. 97-123].
2. Thomsen S., Conyon M. (2012), “The Mechanism of Governance: An Introduction”. In Corporate Governance. Mechanisms and Systems. McGraw-Hill. [pp. 45-62].
3. Zattoni A. (2015), “Per chi deve creare valore un'impresa?”. In Corporate governance. Egea. [pp. 52-100].
4. Zattoni A. (2005), “Chi dovrebbe governare un'impresa?”. Economia & Management, n. 4. [pp. 61-76].
5. Huse M. (2007), “Board task expectations and theories”. In Boards, Governance and Value Creation. The Human Side of Corporate Governance. Cambridge University Press. [pp. 33-68].
6. Micklethwait A., Dimond P. (2017), “Enron: Launch to Boom and Bust, 1985–2001”. In Driven to the Brink. Why Corporate Governance, Board Leadership and Culture Matter. Palgrave Macmillan. [pp. 15-38]
Supplementary readings:
Hilb M. (2016), New Corporate Governance. Successful Board Management Tools. Springer.
Huse M. (2007), Boards, Governance and Value Creation. The Human Side of Corporate Governance. Cambridge University Press
Larcker D., Tayan B. (2015), Corporate Governance Matters. A Closer Look at Organizational Choices and Their Consequences. Pearson Education.
Thomsen S., Conyon M. (2012), Corporate Governance. Mechanisms and Systems. McGraw-Hill.
Tricker B. (2019), Corporate governance. Principles, Policies and Practices. Oxford University Press.
Zattoni A. (2015), Corporate governance. EGEA.
Marc Georgen (2018), Corporate Governance: A Global Perspective. Cengage Learning EMEA.
Others readings required:
1. Paci A. (2010), “La crisi al tempo della globalizzazione”. In Fitoussi J., Ginefra P., Masera R., A. Paci, Roma G., Spaventa L., Letta E., Fare i conti con la crisi. il Mulino. [pp. 97-123].
2. Thomsen S., Conyon M. (2012), “The Mechanism of Governance: An Introduction”. In Corporate Governance. Mechanisms and Systems. McGraw-Hill. [pp. 45-62].
3. Zattoni A. (2015), “Per chi deve creare valore un'impresa?”. In Corporate governance. Egea. [pp. 52-100].
4. Zattoni A. (2005), “Chi dovrebbe governare un'impresa?”. Economia & Management, n. 4. [pp. 61-76].
5. Huse M. (2007), “Board task expectations and theories”. In Boards, Governance and Value Creation. The Human Side of Corporate Governance. Cambridge University Press. [pp. 33-68].
6. Micklethwait A., Dimond P. (2017), “Enron: Launch to Boom and Bust, 1985–2001”. In Driven to the Brink. Why Corporate Governance, Board Leadership and Culture Matter. Palgrave Macmillan. [pp. 15-38]
Supplementary readings:
Hilb M. (2016), New Corporate Governance. Successful Board Management Tools. Springer.
Huse M. (2007), Boards, Governance and Value Creation. The Human Side of Corporate Governance. Cambridge University Press
Larcker D., Tayan B. (2015), Corporate Governance Matters. A Closer Look at Organizational Choices and Their Consequences. Pearson Education.
Thomsen S., Conyon M. (2012), Corporate Governance. Mechanisms and Systems. McGraw-Hill.
Tricker B. (2019), Corporate governance. Principles, Policies and Practices. Oxford University Press.
Zattoni A. (2015), Corporate governance. EGEA.
Prerequisites
Nothing to mention
Course program
Introduction to corporate governance.
Defining corporate governance and key theoretical models.
Corporate control across the world.
Control versus ownership rights.
Taxonomies of corporate governance systems.
Corporate governance, types of financial systems and economic growth.
Corporate governance regulation in an international context.
Board of Directors.
Board task expectations and theories.
The value-creating board.
Incentivizing manager and disciplining of badly performing managers.
Corporate governance in emerging markets.
Contractual corporate governance.
Corporate governance in initial public offering.
Corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investment.
Debtholders.
Employee rights and voice across corporate governance systems.
The role of gatekeepers in corporate governance.
Behavioural biases and corporate governance.
Learn from diversity and future challenges for corporate governance.
Defining corporate governance and key theoretical models.
Corporate control across the world.
Control versus ownership rights.
Taxonomies of corporate governance systems.
Corporate governance, types of financial systems and economic growth.
Corporate governance regulation in an international context.
Board of Directors.
Board task expectations and theories.
The value-creating board.
Incentivizing manager and disciplining of badly performing managers.
Corporate governance in emerging markets.
Contractual corporate governance.
Corporate governance in initial public offering.
Corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investment.
Debtholders.
Employee rights and voice across corporate governance systems.
The role of gatekeepers in corporate governance.
Behavioural biases and corporate governance.
Learn from diversity and future challenges for corporate governance.