The Geography of Finance:Corporate Governance in the Global Marketplace: Corporate Governance in the Global Marketplace

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OUP Oxford, May 3, 2007 - Business & Economics - 272 pages
The Geography of Finance tackles crucial issues regarding the emerging global market for corporate governance. The authors describe and explain the transformation of European corporate governance in the light of the imperatives driving global financial markets, using an innovative analytical framework.The authors chart the response of corporate managers to the interest of global portfolio managers in transparent and accountable modes of corporate governance. In doing so, the authors provide an innovative perspective on a rapidly changing environment; and a challenge to those who ignore the gathering momentum of global financial markets.

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Gordon L. Clark is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Professorial Fellow of the Saďd Business School, and Faculty Associate of the Institute of Ageing at the University of Oxford, and is a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford. He is a member of the Panel of Academic Experts of the UK National Association of Pension Funds and a Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute.Dr Dariusz Wójcik works as Lecturer at the University College London and a Research Associate at Oxford University. He holds an MSc in Geography from the Jagiellonian University, an MSc in Economics from the Cracow Academy of Economics, and an MSc in Banking and Finance from the Stockholm University. In 1996-1999 he was a consultant for KPMG Poland. He obtained his D.Phil. from Oxford University for a thesis on European corporate governance and capital market integration. He has lecturedat the London School of Economics, Oxford University, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University on financial globalization, transition economies, corporate governance, and the economic geography of financial services and centres. He has published papers in leading journals in the field of economic geography andhis research was reported in the Financial Times.

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