Corporate Governance: Principles, Policies and Practices, 2nd Edition

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Corporate Governance and Other Stakeholders

CHAPTER OUTLINE

• Introduction
• Corporate Governance and Employees
• Corporate Governance and Customers
• Corporate Governance and Institutional Investors
• Corporate Governance and Creditors
• Corporate Governance and the Community
• Corporate Governance and the Government

Introduction

It is a well-accepted principle nowadays that corporations exist not only for the benefi t of its part-owners called shareholders, but also to serve the interests of other stakeholders in society. It is fallacious to argue anymore that the immediate concern of a company is exclusively towards shareholders, while other stakeholders are only of a peripheral importance to it. A corporate does not exist by itself and it does ...