Corporate Governance in Action

2A Field Approach to Corporate Governance

Lars Engwall, Jaan Grünberg, Josef Pallas, Kerstin Sahlin, Linda Wedlin, Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Helena Buhr, Katarina Buhr, Magnus Frostenson, Ingemund Hägg, Laurence Romani, Lars Strannegård and Karolina Windell

Introduction

As was pointed out in Chapter 1, a basic point of departure for this book is the felt need to develop a new approach to corporate governance. This is particularly the case in relation to the principal-agency approach. As demonstrated by the three cases in the previous chapter, there is a crying need to take a wider perspective and take into consideration that other actors than the principals and their agents are important for the governance of corporations. This means that corporate ...