Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Structure of Todays Session:
2. Case Where Have All the Good Directors Gone? Refer page no. 240
of your textbook
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
Introduction:
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
OR
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
The central theme is to make sure that the strategic decisions are effective
Key stakeholders are shareholders whose value should be maximum
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
These areas can be CEO pay, election of directors, director pay, strategic
direction and structure of the company
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
Agency Relationships:
Shareholders (Principals)
Firm Owners
Hire
Managers (Agents)
Decision Makers
And Create
Agency Relationship
Risk-bearing (Principal)
Decision-maker (Agent)
Principal paying compensation
to decision maker
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
Such relationships can exist between different entities like managers and their
employees
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
OR
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
With increased product lines, top-level managers can safeguard their employment
risk
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
In contrast, the shareholders might prefer to use the available cash as dividends
for their share in the company
Issues of corporate governance then arise as both the entities have conflicting
motives of using available cash
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
Board of Directors:
Shareholders monitor the actions and decisions of managers via Board of Directors
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Corporate Governance & Strategic Management:
4. Certifies to shareholders that the CEO is doing what the board expects
5. Is intensely involved in debating the pros and cons of key decisions and
actions
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