Modern Corporate System: New Perspectives on Exploring Corporate Dilemmas

Author: Zhang Yinjie
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: Do you want to know the answers to the following questions? In modern enterprises, is the relationship between shareholders and directors a director's trust relationship or a principal-agent relationship? What are the differences between a director's trust relationship and a principal-agent relationship? Are directors part of management? Is a CEO the same as a general manager? Is it better for the chairman of the board to be a part-time or full-time position compared to the general manager or CEO? Why are small and medium-sized enterprises not suitable for establishing modern enterprise systems? Why do partnership enterprises implement unlimited liability systems, while joint-stock companies implement limited liability systems? When an owner-managed enterprise grows and hires professional managers, does this type of enterprise also face a separation of ownership and control issue? What are the differences between a principal-agent relationship and an employment relationship? Why do people often use "sales revenue" as a measure of a company's size? What are the differences between legal insider control and actual insider control in terms of their manifestations and causes? Why are operators more enthusiastic about corporate expansion compared to owners? What are the differences between corporate governance and corporate management? What are the differences between governance structures and governance mechanisms? What are the differences between the annual income of corporate managers and their equity income? Why do state-owned enterprises face both principal-agent problems and principal problems? What are the main differences between the newly established State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) in 2004 and the old State-owned Assets Administration Bureau? What is the significance of this difference? Many highlights in this book will give you new insights into some corporate issues. The book explores the most pressing concerns of the Chinese corporate world. For example, in modern enterprises, the relationship between the board of directors and shareholders; whether corporate managers are agents of shareholders or the legal entity of the company; why small and medium-sized enterprises are not suitable for establishing modern enterprise systems, and so on—all of these issues are thoroughly analyzed and explored in a detailed and insightful manner.