Corporate governance, the role played by the board of directors, has changed dramatically in recent years, as boards become more assertive in their watchdog function. In Keeping Good Company , leading authority Jonathan Charkham--whom The Financial Times of London recently dubbed "Mr. Corporate Governance"--provides an insightful comparative study of corporate governance in five major industrial powers: Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Charkham provides a concise survey of business ...
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Corporate governance, the role played by the board of directors, has changed dramatically in recent years, as boards become more assertive in their watchdog function. In Keeping Good Company , leading authority Jonathan Charkham--whom The Financial Times of London recently dubbed "Mr. Corporate Governance"--provides an insightful comparative study of corporate governance in five major industrial powers: Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Charkham provides a concise survey of business practices in these five nations--the roles played by the government, the banks, the stockholders, and so forth--and evaluates the positive and negative aspects of each system of governance. For example, he points out some of the problems found in American corporate governance: the information given to the board is often insufficient (at times, deliberately so); the board members are not always expert enough to see deeply into what they are being told; and board members are not always willing to exert necessary and timely influence over the management of the corporation. Equally important, he highlights the cultural aspects of each nation that help shape their style of corporate governance. For instance, he shows how Japanese values of "consensus," "obligation," and "family" influence business. Thus in Japan, top management makes immense efforts to build a consensus, boards take a collegial approach, the company is viewed as a family, and leaders are rarely removed ("Only God removes a president," one Japanese said). We also read of Germany's unique two-tiered system of corporate governance in which the job of overseeing and appointing the board ( Vorstand ) is given to the Aufsichtsrat , a separate group of supervisors. And we learn of France's PDG (president director), a figure of almost absolute power (which Charkham suggests may be traced back to such powerful figures as Napolean or de Gaulle). Charkham points out that the best systems seem to be collegial in style, that contrary to the saying that the best committees are committees of one, group management is actually a more efficient way of running a large and complex operation (in Europe, some of the best companies, such as Shell and Unilever, are governed by a more collegial process). And of the five nations studied, he concludes that Germany and Japan appear to have the most efficient systems of corporate governance. Hailed as "the definitive study on comparative corporate governance" by Harvard's Jay Lorsch (author of Pawns and Potentates and an expert on America's corporate boards), Keeping Good Company brilliantly demonstrates that a sound framework for the exercise of corporate power is an economic necessity. This book will be essential reading for all top executives, especially those working for multinational corporations.
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