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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 (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 (PDF at Columbia)

• Directory of Directors in the City of New York (partial serial archives)

• 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)
• Automation and Management (Boston: Harvard University, 1958), by James R. Bright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Psychology of Management: The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Lillian Moller Gilbreth (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Process Engineering Economics (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1955), by Herbert E. Schweyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Industrial Engineering (1927-1931) (partial serial archives)
• Industrial Engineer (1922-1927) (full serial archives)
• The Magazine of Business (1927-1929) (full serial archives)
• System (1900-1927) (full serial archives)
• Industrial Management (1916-1927) (full 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)

• 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., 1913), 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 (Gutenberg text)
• The Psychology of Management: The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Lillian Moller Gilbreth (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• Industrial Health (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son and Co., c1924), ed. by George M. Kober and Emery Roe Hayhurst (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Marketing Behavior and Executive Action: A Functionalist Approach to Marketing Theory (Homewood, IL: R. D. Irwin Inc., c1957), by Wroe Alderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Price Discrimination and Marketing Management (Michigan Business Studies v15 #1; 1960), by Brian Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unleashing the Ideavirus, by Seth Godin
  • PDF at ideavirus.com
  • HTML at bookreporter.com

• The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto (c2010), by Kevin A. Carson (PDF with commentary at kevinacarson.org)

• Small Business Management in the 21st Century (c2012), by David Cadden and Sandra L. Lueder (HTML and PDF with commentary at umn.edu)
• The Flexible Enterprise (electronic edition, c2010), by David Gewirtz (PDF at wordpress.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.