Corporate governance and institutionalization



Nordberg, Donald
Corporate governance and institutionalization. Doctor of Philosophy thesis, University of Liverpool.

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Abstract

This thesis concerns corporate governance, a field that has attracted attention from a wide range of academic disciplines and evoking the often competing interests of corporations and investors. Interest in the field grew over the past three decades in response to recurrent corporate and market failures, through which it became a focal point of public policy debate as well. The complexity makes analysis both difficult and deeply rewarding. Scholars approach it from a wide variety of often conflicting theoretical perspectives, which ironically results in a field that can seem under-theorized. Studies of the field take a number of directions, presenting a challenge to all those who study it. This thesis addresses that challenge by adopting three different stances and then bringing them together under a framework based in institutional theory. An introductory chapter outlines the work, while the concluding chapter then articulates the links further and points towards an agenda for further research.

Item Type: Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy)
Additional Information: Date: 2012-06 (completed)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Corporate governance, institutional theory, boards of directors, institutional logics, ethics, politics
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Management
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 09 Aug 2012 09:27
Last Modified: 16 Dec 2022 04:36
DOI: 10.17638/00006493
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/6493