Theory and Practice of Corporate Governance

Stephen Bloomfield leads the Corporate Governance Unit at Anglia Ruskin University. He is a Visiting Fellow in Corporate Governance at Kingston University and London South Bank University and prior to his academic career, he was a stockbroking analyst and then a director of a major venture capital fund. He has been a director of numerous venture capital funded companies and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.

Part I. The Discipline of Governance: 1. The landscape and definitions of governance: the major actors; 2. Inward-facing governance; 3. Outward-facing governance; Part II. The Relationship Between Law and Governance: 4. The protection of the laws; 5. Critical governance law; Part III. Governance and the Listed Company: 6. The development of governance - the Governance Codes; 7. The 2007–8 financial crises: the failure of systemic governance; 8. Systemic governance: the Turner Review, the Walker Review and the Vickers Commission; Part IV. Governance and Regulation: 9. The company and the stock market; 10. Non-shareholder regulation of companies; 11. Changes in regulatory structures - the PRA, the FCA and the ICB recommendations; 12. Failure - the abiding characteristic of regulation; 13. Accounting for profits: the root of information asymmetry; 14. Reward and performance; Part VI. Counter-Governance: Failures of Governance and Corporate Failure: 15. Counter-governance (1): theory; 16. Counter-governance (2): abuse of stakeholders; 17. Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.