IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-14158-6_1.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Setting the Scene

In: Winning Ways through Corporate Governance

Author

Listed:
  • Neville Bain
  • David Band

Abstract

There is considerable disquiet in the community which is calling into question present practices of governance. Depending upon one’s perspective, the areas of discontent are clustered around the following: Low ethical and professional standards leading to poor performance and a loss of value in the various organisations. Double standards allowing practice to differ from stated ideals. Failures of commercial and non-profit organisations as a result of inadequate controls or unsatisfactory checks and balances. Inappropriate pursuit of short-term profit at the expense of either the longer-term or other stakeholders who are seriously disadvantaged. High rewards, apparently out of line with performance or with an appropriate peer group. A lack of transparency in remuneration practice. Tensions and frictions that arise from the different objectives of a management team which is separated from ownership.

Suggested Citation

  • Neville Bain & David Band, 1996. "Setting the Scene," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Winning Ways through Corporate Governance, chapter 1, pages 1-19, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-14158-6_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14158-6_1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-14158-6_1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.