Better Boardrooms

Repairing Corporate Governance for the 21st Century

Patricia Meredith

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University of Toronto Press
24 November 2020

Corporate governance & responsibilities

Disruptive change has clearly intensified in today's fast-paced business world. Why are boards of directors so ineffective in dealing with the threats inherent in every corporate governance system? In Better Boardrooms, Donner Prize winning author Patricia Meredith zeroes in on how boards can help manage uncertainty. Meredith outlines the specific corporate strategies that should be implemented in order to reduce the tremendous waste of resources

financial, human, intellectual, social, and environmental

that occurs when companies fail to respond effectively to forces that are so obviously surrounding them.

To regain the reputation of boards as vibrant enablers of economic growth, Better Boardrooms proposes that a broad cross-section

including policy makers and regulators, customers, suppliers, bankers, and investors

work together to create a system better suited to the business obstacles of the twenty-first century. Discussing how the current corporate system is flawed and in desperate need of a digitally focused restructuring, Better Boardrooms proposes a new model of governance, one based on dialogue and collaboration that ensures all relevant voices are heard and included. As boundaries between industries blur and stakeholders gain greater access to information, it is vital that boards of directors help set corporate strategy rather than simply approve it.

By: Patricia Meredith
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781442649750
ISBN 10: 1442649755
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 24 November 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Patricia Meredith is a Fellow at the David & Sharon Johnston Centre for Governance Innovation at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, University of Waterloo. Her previous book Stumbling Giants, co-authored with James L. Darroch, was the Winner of the 2018 Donner Prize for the Best Public Policy Book by Canadian authors.

Reviews for Better Boardrooms: Repairing Corporate Governance for the 21st Century

"""Meredith succeeds in making the case for reforming corporate governance and offers some constructive ways forward."" -- G. Christensen, Stetson University College of Law * <EM>CHOICE</EM> *"