The Geography of Finance: Corporate Governance in the Global Marketplace New Edition
Author(s): Gordon L. Clark (Author), Dariusz Wójcik (Author)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication Date: 3 May 2007
Edition: New
Language: English
Print length: 262 pages
ISBN-10: 0199213364
ISBN-13: 9780199213368
Book Description
The Geography of Finance tackles crucial issues regarding the emerging global market for corporate governance. The authors describe and explain the transformation of European corporate governance in the light of the imperatives driving global financial markets, using an innovative analytical framework.
The authors chart the response of corporate managers to the interest of global portfolio managers in transparent and accountable modes of corporate governance. In doing so, the authors provide an innovative perspective on a rapidly changing environment; and a challenge to those who ignore the gathering momentum of global financial markets.
Editorial Reviews
Review
`This fine book sheds new light on the interaction of dynamic financial markets and the structures of corporate governance. The authors take us far beyond conventional treatments of institutional convergence and divergence. Their broadly interdisciplinary approach yields compelling arguments, innovative empirical tests, and appropriately nuanced conclusions. The Geography of Finance will certainly engage a wide range of expert readers, but students and non-specialists interested in the future of global capitalism will find it accessible as well.’ Louis W. Pauly, Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Governance and Director of the Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
Book Description
An innovative perspective on the rapidly changing environment of corporate governance, and a challenge to those who ignore the gathering momentum of global financial markets
About the Author
Gordon L. Clark is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Professorial Fellow of the Saïd Business School, and Faculty Associate of the Institute of Ageing at the University of Oxford, and is a Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford. He is a member of the Panel of Academic Experts of the UK National Association of Pension Funds and a Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute.
Dr Dariusz Wójcik works as Lecturer at the University College London and a Research Associate at Oxford University. He holds an MSc in Geography from the Jagiellonian University, an MSc in Economics from the Cracow Academy of Economics, and an MSc in Banking and Finance from the Stockholm University. In 1996-1999 he was a consultant for KPMG Poland. He obtained his D.Phil. from Oxford University for a thesis on European corporate governance and capital market integration. He has lectured at the London School of Economics, Oxford University, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University on financial globalization, transition economies, corporate governance, and the economic geography of financial services and centres. He has published papers in leading journals in the field of economic geography and his research was reported in the
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