Corporate Governance
Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a new book on corporate governance titled "Corporate Governance". This is a textbook aimed at postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners.
The authors of the book are Dr. Alexander Kostyuk, Ukrainian Academy of Banking (Ukraine), Dr. Udo C. Braendle, Manchester Law School (UK) and Dr. Rodolfo Apreda, University of Cema (Argentina).
Experts from 20 countries contributed texts to this textbook. They are experts both from developed and developing countries providing readers of this book with an international comparative analysis of corporate governance practices and corporate governance essentials. Efforts of more than 40 corporate governance experts have found its implementation in this book.
The new book contains 21 chapters (see the book content enclosed below). The international comparative analysis of corporate governance practices covers such countries as the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Japan, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, China. Corporate governance analysis is built around such issues as corporate law and regulation, ownership structures, market for corporate control, board of directors, stock market, etc.
Special attention is paid to the issue of board of directors. This covers the director selection, director remuneration, director independence, the board procedures.
Corporate governance theories are described in the book too. Agency theory, stakeholder theory and other theories are the basis of the corporate governance and therefore these are in the book.
- Publisher – Virtus Interpress
- Author – Alexander N. Kostyuk, Udo C. Braendle, Rodolfo Apreda
- Year of publishing – 2007
- Total number of pages is 402 (hardback)
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1. Single copy - €79.
2. Five and more copies - €76 each.
3. Ten and more copies - €73 each.
To order the book, please, contact Dr. Alexander Kostyuk, President, Virtus Interpress. Contact information can be viewed at our contacts and ordering page. Ordering form can be downloaded here (in MS Word format).
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Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a new book on corporate governance titled "Corporate Board Practices".
The author of the book is Dr. Alexander Kostyuk, Chair in Governance at Ukrainian Academy of Banking (Ukraine). This book is a result of original research conducted by the author worldwide.
The new book has 8 chapters. The book narrates on the corporate board practices with application the comparison review of the board practices in developed and developing countries. The author researched 270 joint stock companies for the period between 1998 and 2005. The author investigated in details such board practices as director election, director nomination, director independence, director remuneration, board committees, board size and composition. The international comparative analysis covers board practices in such countries as the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Japan, Australia, Russia and Ukraine. There are unique data on the level and structure of director remuneration in these countries.
- Publisher – Virtus Interpress
- Author – Alexander N. Kostyuk
- Year of publishing – 2006
- Total number of pages is 154 (paperback)
- ISBN 966-680-055-8
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1. Single copy - US$70.
2. Five and more copies - US$65 each.
3. Ten and more copies - US$62 each.
4. Twenty and more copies – US$60 each.
To order the book, please, contact Dr. Alexander Kostyuk. Contact information can be viewed at our contacts and ordering page. Ordering form can be downloaded here (in MS Word format).
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Corporate Governance in a Transition Economy
Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a new book on corporate governance titled "Corporate Governance in a transition economy".
The author of the book is Dr. Alexander Kostyuk, Chair in Governance at Ukrainian Academy of Banking (Ukraine). This book is a result of a five-year research conducted by the author.
The new book has 12 chapters. The book narrates on the system of mechanisms of corporate governance in Ukraine. This is a first book written about the corporate governance in a certain transition economy. The author researched 270 joint stock companies for the period between 1998 and 2004. The author investigated in details board practices, executive compensation, ownership structures, capital structures, credit structures, decision system, monitoring system, bankruptcy system, market for executives. There are unique data on the level and structure of executive remuneration in Ukraine, board committee practices.
Total number of pages is 152 (paperback).
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1. Single copy - US$68.
2. Five and more copies - US$64 each.
3. Ten and more copies - US$62 each.
4. Twenty and more copies – US$60 each.
To order the book, please, contact Dr. Alexander Kostyuk. Contact information can be viewed at our contacts and ordering page. Ordering form can be downloaded here (in MS Word format).
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"Corporate Governance in a Transition Economy" extends governance-models originally aimed at understanding private organization in developed economies to gain new insight to how private organization is evolving in transforming economies. The give-and-take here is a rich one, with established theories letting us see through new complexities, and newly observed phenomena motivating refinements therein" - Dino Falaschetti, Senior Economist , Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President, Washington, DC, USA
"Kostyuk's analysis is clear, rigorous and complete. From the assumption that transformation is a collective good, it follows that the problem of free-riding has to be faced both by means of external help and domestic political leadership. Consequently there is a danger that transformation may never be completed. The contributions show that changes in ownership titles are but one part of the story.... An excellent work!" - Giovanni D'Orio, University of Calabria, Italy
"Corporate Governance in a Transition Economy is the most thorough and comprehensive case study of corporate governance in Ukraine. It is the starting point for scholars and business practitioners who need information on this important topic. Many of the insights from the Ukraine case study can be applied to corporate governance in other transition economies as well. This book will become a standard work in the field" – Robert McGee, Barry University, USA
"Public markets need well governed companies to allocate capital efficiently. Good corporate governance cannot guarantee economic success in a public company but without good corporate governance the odds of economic success are significantly lowered" - David R. Beatty, The Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, Toronto, Canada
"Are the corporations at transition economies serving the interests of society? Borrowing from Berle and Means, Kostyuk uses purposefully collected empirical data to examine .....corporate governance practices in Ukraine, especially those ones connected to the separation of ownership and control. The author brings out the implications of the corporate mechanisms for the sovereignty and autonomy of Ukraine, and for the practices of democracy, opening up an important debate on the concept of corporate citizenship. This book advances our knowledge of transition economies and incites to critical studies on the limits of corporate capitalism" - Branka Mraović, University of Zagreb, Croatia
"This ia really a pioneering work! Especially on background of Ukraine as a "terra incognita" it provides a brilliant picture of an economy and a corporate governance system in transition. In particular, there is a highly systematic overview that is easy to be read and to be followed" - Thomas Steger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
"This is one of the best books ever written on Corporate Governance in economies other than the developed ones. This book provides excellent reference and good read to start with in the field of corporate governance" - Jayesh Kumar, Xavier Institute of Management, India
"This book covers the many interesting mechanisms of corporate governance in a transition economy, including ownership structure, employee shareholding…... The book provides rigorous empirical analysis and offer intuitive conclusions and will be a valued reference work for scholars and practitioners" - Anlin Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
"It really works for both practitioners and academicians which makes it a real advantage. One of the best features of the book is its focus on the separation between the role of investors and controllers of a firm which sheds the light on a very important reason of growth impediments of firms in transition economies all over the world. You should learn a lot after reading this publication" – Turki Alshimmiri, The University of Kuwait, Kuwait
Alexander N. Kostyuk is Assistant Professor in Corporate Governance, Ukrainian Academy of Banking of National Bank of Ukraine. Editor-in-Chief and founder of international journals Corporate Ownership and Control, and Corporate Board: role, duties and composition. He is author of 14 papers in international journals on corporate governance, board practices, executive compensation, corporate control and ownership.
