Fredmund Malik

Corporate Policy and Governance

How Organizations Self-Organize

Fredmund Malik describes what really matters in good management and explains the core issues of corporate governance, namely, customer value or focusing on service to the client. The prevalent conceptual models of corporate policy have become obsolete: the shareholder approach is the worst theory of all time; stakeholder theory is not practicable; trusting the stock market is a mistake. What counts is effective corporate governance, which has become an indispensable requirement for survival.
The author shows:
• how corporate governance should be structured
• which financial parameters are truly important>
• the optimal size for a supervisory board, and
• which errors result when profit maximization is declared the company’s top objective.

Fredmund Malik
Prof. Fredmund Malik numbers among Europe’s leading management
thinkers. As a consultant and management instructor for the last 30
years he has advised, educated and shaped executives at all levels and
in all industries. This professor from St. Gallen personifies a unique
synthesis of theory and practice. He himself has been a successful
entrepreneur for decades as CEO and principal of Malik
Managementzentrum St. Gallen, with roughly 200 employees in St. Gallen,
Zurich, London, Vienna, Shanghai and Toronto.

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