Editors:
- Offers a comprehensive assessment of the main governance models operating in the leading six countries in the region
- Presents perspectives from experts in each country with unparalleled access to their respective governing elites
- Extracts managerial and theoretical lessons from each country
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Grounded in institutional theories, this volume offers a framework for understanding the evolution of corporate governance in the six leading Latin American countries, namely Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.
Applying inductive qualitative methods, it postulates the notion of governing as a dynamic, emergent and contextual process and traces its evolution and adaption to the different configurations of institutional logics in each country and the region as a whole over several decades.
Adopting corporate governance scandals as the lens through which to observe institutional change in each country, this book reveals the sources of societal transformations, identifying key lessons as well as meaningful setbacks along the way.
This edited collection helps appreciate the role and interactions of corporate elites, stakeholders and watchdogs, including the visible hands of government and multinational corporations, presenting comparisons across the countries, the region and the broader evolution of governing practices around the globe.
The result is a book combining scholarly rigor and practical relevance, looking to serve as an emerging markets benchmark guide for practitioners, researchers and thinktanks alike.
Reviews
“Most of the world’s thriving businesses are owned by families or a state. But you wouldn’t know that from the overwhelming focus of global corporate governance scholarship, whichhas for years been trained on the escapades of publicly traded enterprises in big developed markets. Finally the aperture is widening, thanks in no small part to Corporate Governing in Latin America - The Importance of Scandals to Institute Change, edited by Jonathan Callund, Gonzalo Jiménez-Seminario, and Neil Pyper. The authors keep academics happy with solid theory about what distinguishes one market from another. For practitioners—that is, investors, companies, or executives—this book is a gold mine of real-world insights on how corporate governance works, or doesn’t, across six Latin American markets. One key finding: Scandal, sometimes at monstrous scale, plays an outsized role in driving change in each country. But this makes the region a crucible of global significance: eruptions are what happens when entrenched power faces the shock troops of global capitalism in the form of foreign financial agents, international standards, probing media. The outcomes of such clashes are what now shape Latin America’s corporate future. Callund, Jiménez-Seminario, Pyper, and their many chapter authors are the indispensable guides we need to understand and navigate it.” (Professor Stephen Davis, Senior Fellow and Associate Director, Harvard Law School - Program on Corporate Governance)
Editors and Affiliations
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Callund y Compañía Ltda, Santiago, Chile
Jonathan Callund
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Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Gonzalo Jiménez-Seminario
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International Business, School of Business, Economics and Informatics, University of London, Birkbeck, UK
Neil Pyper
About the editors
Jonathan Callund is Independent Nominee Director for IFC and financial services corporations in Europe and Latin America, and he is CEO Callund y Compañía Ltda. Partner, MC2 Salud.
Gonzalo Jiménez Seminario is Professor of Governance, Strategy & Family Business in the Engineering School at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. He is CEO at PROTEUS Management, Governance & Effectuation. He is Independent Board Member.
Neil Pyper is Assistant Dean (Education) and Senior Lecturer in International Business, School of Business, Economics and Informatics, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Corporate Governing in Latin America
Book Subtitle: The Importance of Scandals to Institute Change
Editors: Jonathan Callund, Gonzalo Jiménez-Seminario, Neil Pyper
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85780-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85779-0Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85782-0Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85780-6Published: 01 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 400
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Corporate Governance, Business Strategy/Leadership, Management, Emerging Markets/Globalization