Corporate governance

Participate in class discussions on the following topic areas:

• reasons for the interest in corporate governance

• compare and contrasts international corporate governance systems

• the roles and functions of the board of directors, board committees and the board's relationship with management from legal, economics and management perspectives

• empirical studies of the relationship between corporate governance and corporate performance

• role and the legal duties of directors

• role and structure of the board

• the importance of corporate social responsibility in board deliberations

• financial and other disclosure issues

• the role of institutional investors

• comparative perspective on corporate governance in Asia