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Corporate Governance and Inequality: The Impact of Financialization and Shareholder Value

Thomas Clarke
Soheyla Gholamshahi

Finance and Economy for Society: Integrating Sustainability

ISBN: 978-1-78635-510-2, eISBN: 978-1-78635-509-6

ISSN: 2043-9059

Publication date: 16 December 2016

Abstract

Originality/value

The analysis of inequality has not been neglected and this chapter represents a pioneering effort to relate the shareholder value orientation now dominant in corporate governance to the intensification of inequality.

Keywords

  • Corporate governance
  • Inequality
  • Agency theory
  • Maximizing shareholder value

Citation

Clarke, T. and Gholamshahi, S. (2016), "Corporate Governance and Inequality: The Impact of Financialization and Shareholder Value", Finance and Economy for Society: Integrating Sustainability (Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 27-55. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2043-905920160000011001

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