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Corporate governance

Here are entered works on running a corporation in a manner that is consistent with the rights and responsibilities of the various parties involved and that holds the managers and the board of directors accountable to stockholders and governmental regulatory agencies.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Industrial management

• Directors of corporations

• Corporate governance -- China
• Corporate governance -- Social aspects
• Corporate governance -- United States

• Governance, Corporate

• Institutional Investors and Corporate Behavior (Washington: AEI Press, 1999), by Gile R. Downes, Ehud Houminer, and R. Glenn Hubbard (DHH_Inst_Invest_Proj_AEI_12_99.pdf PDF at Columbia)
• Governing Failure: Provisional Expertise and the Transformation of Global Development Finance (Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, c2014), by Jacqueline Best (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• The Emperor's Nightingale: Restoring the Integrity of the Corporation in the Age of Shareholder Activism, by Robert A. G. Monks (PDF files at ragm.com)
• The New Global Investors: How Shareholders Can Unlock Sustainable Prosperity Worldwide, by Robert A. G. Monks (PDF files with commentary at ragm.com)
• When Things Don't Fall Apart: Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence, by Ilene Grabel, contrib. by Dani Rodrik (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Corporate Governance and Enterprise Reform in China: Building the Institutions of Modern Markets (Washington: World Bank and International Finance Corporation, 2002), by Stoyan Tenev, Chunlin Zhang, and Loup Berfort (PDF at worldbank.org)

• Governance Through Social Learning (c1999), by Gilles Paquet (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• On Corporate Governance: The Corporation As It Ought to Be (Washington: AEI Press, 1997), by Michael Novak (PDF with commentary at AEI)
• Power and Accountability, by Robert A. G. Monks and Nell Minow (HTML at lens-library.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Institutional Investors and Corporate Behavior (Washington: AEI Press, 1999), by Gile R. Downes, Ehud Houminer, and R. Glenn Hubbard (DHH_Inst_Invest_Proj_AEI_12_99.pdf PDF at Columbia)

• Basics for Bank Directors (fifth edition, 2010), contrib. by Forest E. Myers (PDF with commentary at bankdirectorsdesktop.org)

• Exploring Business (version 2.0, derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2011), by Karen Collins (PDF at saylor.org)
• The Development of Executive Talent: A Handbook of Management Development Techniques and Case Studies (New York: American Management Association, c1952), ed. by M. Joseph Dooher and Vivienne Marquis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Principles of Scientific Management, by Frederick Winslow Taylor (Gutenberg text)

• Pricing Decisions in Small Business (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1962), by W. Warren Haynes (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues (originally published 1981), by Seymour H. Fine (PDF at gutenberg.us)

• Engineering Implications of Chronic Materials Scarcity (1977), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Computer Integration of Engineering Design and Production: A National Opportunity, by National Research Council Committee on the CAD/CAM Interface (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Engineering and the Advancement of Human Welfare: 10 Outstanding Achievements, 1964-1989, by National Academy of Engineering (page images at NAP)

• Shape Interrogation for Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (hyperbook edition, 2009), by N. M. Patrikalakis, Takashi Maekawa, and Wonjoon Cho (illustrated HTML at MIT)

• The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014), by Ricardo Hausmann, César A. Hidalgo, Sebastián Bustos, Michele Coscia, Sarah Chung, Juan Jimenez, Alexander Simoes, and Muhammed A. Yildirim (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Parecon: Life After Capitalism (2003), by Michael Albert (HTML with commentary at zcomm.org)
• Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century, by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel (illustrated HTML at zcomm.org)
• The Political Economy of Participatory Economics, by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel (HTML at zcomm.org)

• Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power (2006), by Larry Lohmann, ed. by Niclas Hallstrom, Olle Nordberg, and Robert Osterbergh (PDF at The Corner House)

• System (partial serial archives)

• Developing Management Ability: 600 Questions and Answers (New York: Ronald Press, c1954), by Earl Planty and J. Thomas Freeston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Strategic Leadership and Decision Making, by Industrial College of the Armed Forces (HTML at af.mil)

• Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations (Washington: Essential Information, 2013), by Gary Ruskin (PDF at corporatepolicy.org)

• The "Virtual Corporation" and Army Organization (c1997), by Francis Fukuyama and Abram N. Shulsky (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• How to Save Jobs (c2010), by David Gewirtz
  • PDF at wordpress.com
  • Zipped Epub at zatz.com

• Bulletins of the Employment Stabilization Research Institute (partial serial archives)

• How to Save Jobs (c2010), by David Gewirtz
  • PDF at wordpress.com
  • Zipped Epub at zatz.com
• The Transition to Stable Employment: The Experience of U.S. Youth in Their Early Labor Market Career, by Jacob A. Klerman and Lynn A. Karoly (PDF files at rand.org)

• Elements of Production Planning and Control (New York: Macmillan, c1962), by Samuel Eilon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shop Management, by Frederick Winslow Taylor (Gutenberg text)
• The New Industrial Day (New York: The Century Co., 19113), by William Cox Redfield (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Value of Order (Deep River, CT: National Foremen's Institute, c1942), by Harry Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplementing Successful Management (c1940), by McKinsey and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial Economics (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1929), by Dexter S. Kimball (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Engineers and the Price System, by Thorstein Veblen (PDF at McMaster)
• Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, by Walter Dill Scott
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Occupational Health: The Soldier and the Industrial Base (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 1993), ed. by David P. Deeter and Joel C. Gaydos (PDF files at Borden Institute)
• Job Demands and Worker Health: Main Effects and Occupational Differences (1975), by Robert D. Caplan, Sidney Cobb, John R. P. French, R. Van Harrison, and Samuel Richard Pinneau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Principles of Marketing (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2012), by John F. Tanner and Mary Anne Raymond (PDF at saylor.org)
• Market Theory and the Price System (c1963), by Israel M. Kirzner (PDF at mises.org)
• Free: The Future of a Radical Price (read by the author in its entirety; 2009), by Chris Anderson (zipped audio files at Wired; 280 MB)
• Unleashing the Ideavirus, by Seth Godin
  • PDF at ideavirus.com
  • HTML at bookreporter.com

• Elements of Production Planning and Control (New York: Macmillan, c1962), by Samuel Eilon (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Flexible Enterprise (electronic edition, c2010), by David Gewirtz (PDF at wordpress.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.