Going off the Rails

Global Capital and the Crisis of Legitimacy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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The capitalist model was developed in the 19th century and recent events have shown the difficulties of adapting this to the demands of the 21st century, in which human and social capital are of far greater importance than physical capital. In Going off the Rails, John Plender shows how corporate scandals, inflated boardroom pay, corporate governance disciplines and outmoded accountancy conventions have stretched the Anglo-American model to its limit and what the effects of this might be on globalisation and the capital markets.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-01-17
Mått163 x 233 x 25 mm
Vikt652 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN9780470853146

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John Plender is a senior editorial writer and columnist at the Financial Times and a regular current affairs broadcaster for the BBC and Channel Four. John has served on the UK government's Company Law Review steering group, and consults on corporate governance for the International Finance Corporation, the private sector lending and investing arm of the World Bank. In 1994 John Plender received the Wincott Award, Britain's premier prize for financial journalism.

About the author viiPreface ixPart 1 IMPATIENT CAPITAL 11 The turn of the global tide 32 The Third World ghetto 253 Dr Pangloss comes to Wall Street 534 Europe pulls up a drawbridge 81Part 2 DOUBLE STANDARDS 1075 Uncreative destruction 1096 The just-in-time CEO 1377 Enron, alas 161Part 3 THE LIMITS OF CONVERGENCE 1838 Apocalypse later 1859 The semi-detached samurai 201Part 4 BEYOND SHAREHOLDER VALUE 21710 The legitimacy crisis 21911 Putting the world to rights 243Index 275

"... cleverly links globalisation and Anglo-American capitalism... if you want to understand what business is going through, it is an excellent place to start." (Management Today, March 2003) 'Plender, a respected Financial Times columnist and former chaiman of the corporate governance consultancy PIRC, analyses the crisis cogently both on macro and micro levels' (Director, April 2003)"…His insightful and wide-ranging book is a must for anyone who wants to understand how global finance shapes the world…" (New Statesman, 21 April 2003)"…Going off the Rails looks at the myriad ways in which those trusted to look after shareholders’ money have let them down…" (Financial Times, 5 May 2003)“…An intelligent book…”(En, May/June 2003)