Strong Managers, Strong Owners

Harry Korine is an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. As an educator, consultant and public speaker, he engages with executives, board members and owners to address questions of strategy development and long-term value generation, especially in a multinational context. Together with Pierre-Yves Gomez, he is the author of Entrepreneurs and Democracy: A Political Theory of Corporate Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Pierre-Yves Gomez is Professor of Strategic Management at EM Lyon Business School (France) and director of the French Corporate Governance Institute. His research focuses on the political foundations of corporate governance, as well as collective utility functions and their application to strategy and governance. He has published several award-winning books in French and English.

• Foreword Hwee Hua Lim; Introduction; Part I. Changes in the Identity of Ownership and Management: 1. Change in ownership; 2. Change in management; Concluding remarks; Part II. Changes in the Form of Ownership and Organization: 3. Change of legal structure; 4. Change of organizational structure; Concluding remarks; Part III. Changes in Strategy: 5. Corporate and business strategies; 6. Despite failure, NO change in ownership, management, or strategy; 7. Because of success, reinforcement of ownership, management, and strategy; Concluding remarks; Part IV. Implications for Corporate Governance: 8. The board of directors; Conclusion – strategy for whom?; Index.

'Strong Managers, Strong Owners raises critical questions that have not been asked before. Corporation mythology is clear that the enterprise is run for the benefit of the owners. The circumstances now confronting us require attention to the dispersion and confusion of shareholdings. We are approaching a time when nobody really knows who are the owners of the large publicly traded companies. Everyone needs to understand that the assumptions behind our conclusions about corporate governance are no longer valid - this book is a splendid entrée into the questions of the new time. You should read it.' Robert A. G. Monks, shareholder activist, author and co-founder of Institutional Shareholder Services, Lens Investment Management, Lens Governance Advisors and The Corporate Library