The Role of the Corporate Secretary in Promoting Corporate Accountability — a United States view

Harold M. Williams
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Harold M. Williams: United States Securities Exchange Comission

Chapter 4 in Management Accountability and Corporate Governance, 1982, pp 41-60 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There can be few people better qualified to assess the problem of corporate accountability than the Chairman of the United States Securities Exchange Commission. Harold Williams reviews factors which could lead to increasing regulation relating to the structure and governance of corporations in the United States. These include the public’s unease over the power of American business, the self interested way in which this power is perceived as being used, and the lack of perceived congruity between business goals and those of the rest of society. Evidence of this sort was contained in responses to the SEC’s request for comments on the advisibility of Commission support for new federal legislation to establish minimum federal standards of corporate conduct and shareholder rights.

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Independent Director; Chief Executive Officer; Audit Committee; Corporate Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05944-7_4

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