Considerable attention has been given to the topic of governance and its relevance to private and public sector organisations. However, little attention has been given to the impact of adopting different governance models on societies and nations which are unaccustomed to alternative ways of working. With both an enterprise level and a societal level of analysis in mind, this book explores the governance impact on both the structure of organisation and performance of organisation, and also examines what are the likely stakeholder reactions and social repercussions of the emerging encroachment of the shareholder value philosophy championed by Anglo-American enterprises on stakeholder societies such as France, Germany, Japan and the Scandinavian countries.

ANDREW KAKABADSE is Professor of Management Development, Director of the Cranfield Centre for International Management Development and Chairman of the Management Development Board. He has consulted and lectured worldwide, and has published widely. He is editor of the Journal of Management Development and sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Managerial Psychology and Leadership and Organisation Development. NADA KAKABADSE is a Senior Research Fellow at the Cranfield School of Management. She has worked for international organisations in Scandinavia, the Middle East and North Africa, as well as for the Canadian Federal Government. She has published widely and is co-editor of the Journal of Management Development and European Editor of the International Journal of Effective Board Performance.