Corporate Governance in Contention
Edited by Ciaran Driver and Grahame Thompson
Author Information
Edited by Ciaran Driver, Professor of Economics, SOAS, University of London, and Grahame Thompson, Emeritus Professor, The Open University
Ciaran Driver is Professor of Economics in the School of Finance and Management at SOAS, University of London. His main research interests are capital investment, innovation, and corporate governance. He has been attached to several global business schools; advised several government and inter-governmental organizations; and held visiting posts in the US, South Africa, and the Australian National University. Recent publications include a chapter in the Sage Handbook of Corporate Governance (2012); work on R&D (Research Policy 2012); economics of advertising (Journal of Economic Surveys 2015); and executive pay (Industrial and Corporate Change 2017). He co-authored with Paul Temple The Unbalanced Economy, Palgrave Macmillan (2014) and was also a co-author of Beyond Shareholder Value, a compendium published by the TUC, SOAS and NPI (2014). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Trustee of the New Economics Foundation.
Grahame Thompson is Emeritus Professor at The Open University, UK. Between 2008 and 2016 he was Visiting Professor first at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School and then Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Political Science at Copenhagen University, Denmark. His latest books are The Constitutionalization of the Global Corporate Sphere? (OUP, 2012) and Globalization Revisited (Routledge, 2015).
Contributors:
John Child is Professor of Commerce at the University of Birmingham and Professor of Management at Plymouth University
Colin Crouch is Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick
Simon Deakin is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Business Research (CBR) at the University of Cambridge
Ciaran Driver is Professor of Economics in the School of Finance and Management at SOAS, University of London
Bob Hancké is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the LSE
Jette Steen Knudsen is the Shelby Cullom Davis Chair in International Business at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Jackie Krafft is Research Professor at Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS-Gredeg
Fabio Landini is Senior Assistant Professor in Economic Policy at the University of Parma and Affiliate at ICRIOS - Bocconi University
William Lazonick is Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts Lowell
Kevin Levillain is an assistant professor in management at MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University
Ugo Pagano is Professor of Economics and the Director of the PhD program in Economics of the University of Siena
Simon Parker is Assistant Professor at Nottingham University Business School, Nottingham
Jacques-Laurent Ravix is Professor of Economics at Université Côte d'Azur
Rory Ridley-Duff is Reader in Co-operative and Social Enterprise at Sheffield Hallam University
Blanche Segrestin is Professor in Management sciences at Mines ParisTech, PSL Research University
Prem Sikka is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex
Grahame Thompson is Emeritus Professor at the Open University
Steen Thomsen is Professor of Corporate Governance at Copenhagen Business School
Jeroen Veldman is Senior Research Fellow at Cass Business School, City University, London
Hugh Willmott is Professor of Management at Cass Business School, City University London
