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Corporate Governance - JEM100
Title: Corporate Governance
Guaranteed by: Institute of Economic Studies (23-IES)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2020
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (97)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=4019
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Class: Courses for incoming students
Incompatibility : JEM188
Is incompatible with: JEM188
Examination dates   Schedule   Noticeboard   
Annotation -
Last update: prof. Ing. Michal Mejstřík, CSc. (10.02.2019)
The seminar is dedicated to discussion of corporate governance concepts and practical problems.
Aim of the course -
Last update: prof. Ing. Michal Mejstřík, CSc. (10.02.2019)

The aim of the course is to introduce students to various topics of corporate governance and to train them to be properly able to analyse, present and discuss corporate governance issues.

Literature -
Last update: prof. Ing. Michal Mejstřík, CSc. (10.02.2019)

Core:

G20 OECD Principle of Corporate Governance 2015

Christine A.Mallin: Corporate Governance, Oxford University Press, 2004
R.A.G.Monks, N. Minow: Corporate Governance, 2nd edition, Blackwell Publishing, 2001
Adrian Cadbury: Corporate Governance and Chairmanship - A Personal View, OUP 2002
Fabrizio Barca, Marco Becht: The Control of Corporate Europe, OUP 2002
R. I. (Bob) Tricker, Robert Ian Tricker: Corporate Governance: Principles, Policies, and Practices, Oxford University Press, 2015 

Additional:

Corporate Governance - The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 106, Vol. I - Vol. IV (ILCWE)
Mejstřík, M. (1999). "Privatization, Foreign Investment and Corporate Governance: Theory and Practice in the Czech Republic." IES Occasional Paper 1/1999, IES FSV. Charles University
Keasey, K., Thompson, S., Wright, M. (eds.) (2005). Corporate Governance Accountability, Enterprise and International Comparisons; John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.

Teaching methods -
Last update: Jaroslav Pavlíček, M.A. (17.01.2019)

The course takes form of seminar sessions. In the first part of the semester, students are introduced to various topics in corporate governance. The second part of the semester is be dedicated to students’ presentations of corporate governance problems and discussion.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: Jaroslav Pavlíček, M.A. (07.02.2019)

The final grade consists of four ingredients:

Presentation on selected topic from CG (max 35 points) 
Essay (max 40 points) 
Evaluation of someone’s essay (max 15 points)
Active participation (max 10 points) 

Grading scale:

A: above 90 (not inclusive)
B: between 80 (not inclusive) and 90 (inclusive)
C: between 70 (not inclusive) and 80 (inclusive)
D: between 60 (not inclusive) and 70 (inclusive)
E: between 50 (not inclusive) and 60 (inclusive)
F: below 50 (inclusive)

Necessary conditions to pass:

at least 50% points from presentation, essay and essay evaluation
at least 60% attendance

Syllabus -
Last update: Jaroslav Pavlíček, M.A. (17.01.2019)

Seminar 1:

Course Information
Basic concepts 

Seminar 2-5:

Advanced corporate governance topics
Guest lectures 

Seminar 6-12:

Students’presentations and discussion

The class materials during the semester are regularly updated in Moodle.

 
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