The course focuses on large business firms with publicly traded equity. It focuses on the iteration between corporate governance at the levels of firm and national system in US, Europe and Asia. Topics will include: role of corporate governance in strategic decision making, director legal duties and customary practices; board leadership structures; best practice codes and investor pressure; movements championing shareholder rights, increased representation of women on boards; governance in the family-controlled (but publicly traded) firm; corporate governance in the “stakeholder model,” and in “state capitalism”; strategic corporate social responsibility and the proper scope of business firms’ responsibilities to society.

CILO-1: Compare and analyse the corporate governance issues involved in business and the workplace. CILO-2: Compare and analyse the role of stakeholders and corporate managers’ moral obligations in business decision making. CILO-3: Apply regulatory requirements to develop appropriate board and committee functions and structures. CILO-4: Apply corporate governance best practice principles and recommendations to achieve appropriate business practice. CILO-5: Analyse and explain economic, social and environmental sustainability issues relating to business practice.