These publishers and journals are our primary reference groups, those who contribute regularly to our "vocabulary of meaning." Organizations and publications listed below are leading authorities in explaining movements and motives in the field. We make every attempt to work cooperatively with them and with members of the Corporate Governance NETwork in our effort to bring you timely information. When contacting our stakeholders, we would appreciate it if you would let them know you found them on the Corporate Governance site.
Across The Board ~American Society of Corporate Secretaries
Bank of America Journal of Applied Corporate Finance ~Boardroom ~Business Ethics
The Corporate Board ~The Corporate Counsellor ~the Corporate Governance Advisor ~Corporate Governance International (CGI) ~Corporate Governance: An International Review ~Corporate Governance: The International Journal for Effective Board Performance ~Corporate Governance Review: Fairvest Securities
Davis Global Advisors ~Directors & Boards ~Directorship
Georgeson ~The Global Corporate Governance Research Center~Good Governance ~Governance: The International Corporate Governance Newsletter
The Hong Kong Institute of Company Secretaries
Institute of Internal Auditors ~Institutional Shareholder Services ~Investor Relations Business ~Investor Relations Magazine ~Investor Responsibility Research Center National Association of Corporate Directors
Pensions & Investments ~Pensions World
Ralph Ward's Boardroom Insider ~Strategic Corporate Research
Across The Board
The Conference Board
845 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022-6679
Tel: 212 759 0900
Fax: 212 980 7014
e-mail: bis@conference-board.or
Price: Associates, $29/year. Non-Associates, $45/year (ten issues).
The Conference Board's magazine of ideas and opinion. "We get ahead of (and behind) the headlines, exploring serious matters in a lively, even irreverent fashion. We concentrate on leading-edge issues and explore them in depth-before they become the common currency of mass-circulation business magazines." An insiders view of business aimed primarily at senior executives.
American Society of Corporate Secretaries
521 Fifth Avenue, 32 Floor, New York, NY 10175
Telephone: (212) 681-2000
rbenasar@ascs.org
Their newsletter, the Corporate Secretary, is $95 per year to nonmembers.
ASCS is involved in such issues as corporate governance, records management, the regulation and trading of securities, proxy solicitation and other shareholder activities, and the administration of the office of the corporate secretary. Their authoritative report on Current Board Practices indicates that 48% of almost 800 firms surveyed have or are seriously considering adopting written guidelines on corporate governance issues.
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Bank of America Journal of Applied Corporate Finance
Stern Stewart Management Services
40 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Tel: 212 261 0600
Price: $95/year, four issues
e-mail: contact@sternstewart.com
Edited by Donald Chew, one issue/year focuses on corporate governance concerns. The Winter 1997 issue, for example, included material largely drawn from a conference held at George Mason University's Law and Economics Center which focused on the contribution of Mark Roe's Strong Managers Weak Owners. The leading scholars on comparative international corporate governance systems are well represented.
Boardroom: Review, Analysis, and Guidance for Corporate Directors
250 Consumers Road, Suite 301
North York, Ontario M2J 4V6
Tel: (416) 494-1440
Fax: (416) 495-8723
Price: $140/year
e-mail: Boardroom@boardroomnews.com
Boardroom is a leading Canadian publication providing news, review, and commentary on corporate governance for directors and those involved in leading and advising corporations both in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. Boardroom is published six times per year.
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Business Ethics
Contact: Karen McNichol
2845 Harriet Avenue Suite 207
PO Box 8439
Minneapolis MN 55408
e-mail: bizethics@aol.com
Phone 612/879-0695
Fax 612/879-0699
Cost: Introductory offer for new subscribers on the Business Ethics website of $25 one year (six issues), $35 outside the U.S. (Normally $49). Business Ethics is the oldest, most comprehensive publication on corporate responsibility and social investing. The mission of Business Ethics is to promote ethical business practices, to serve that growing community of professionals striving to live and work in responsible ways, and to help create financially healthy companies in the process. Request a free sample copy of Business Ethics and/or BizEthicsBuzz, their free monthly e-mail news report.
The Corporate Board: The Journal of Corporate Governance
1995 Index and 1996 Index online
4440 South Hagadorn Road
Okemos, Michigan 48864-2414
Phone: 800/757-0667 517/336-1700
Fax: 517/336-17056604
Editor's E-mail Address: rward@voyager.net
Cost: Corporate Subscription - $2,495/yr (includes individual copies for all board members and senior officers.) Individual Subscription - $390/yr corporate. Contains a wide variety of articles of general interest to board members including interviews, news, books, quotes, and the results of recent board elections.
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The Corporate Counsellor
American Lawyer Media, Inc.
345 Park Ave South
New York, N.Y. 10016
Phone: 212.313.9021
Cost: Subscription (12 issues/year) $315
Advice concerning how to handle outside counsel, solve budgeting dilemmas, automate, and deal with their fellow corporate managers. Coverage of intellectual property due diligence; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; insulating the corporation from bias acts of the subsidiary; how in-house counsel outpace law firms in Web site development; defending your aftermarket; executive compensation; environmental issues; corporate governance; alternatives to your outside counsels hourly rates; how much corporate legal officers earn; total quality management. Subscribers also get a checklists to help limit your risk of liability for inadequate or incomplete due diligence, as well as the monthly Hotline a roundup of brief annotated summaries of recent case decisions, proposed statutes and administrative rulings.
the Corporate Governance Advisor
Aspen Law & Business
7201 McKinney circle, Frederick, MD 20878
Phone: 800.638.0200
Cost: Subscription (6 issues) $325
Monitors developments in Congress, state legislatures, securities regulators, and other regulatory agencies. Keeps its readers abreast of important news regarding the activities of boards of directors, institutional investors, and shareholders.
Corporate Governance Forum
Hamngatan 11
111 47 Stockholm, Sweden
Telephone: (46-8) 678 61 00
Fax: (46-8) 678 07 50
E-mail: Mats.ISAKSSON@oecd.org
A non-profit which stimulates, informs and influences the debate on corporate governance. The Forum supports research, arranges seminars and publishes books and occasional papers. Emphasis is on international experiences and comparisons. With the French Government and the OECD in 1995, co-sponsored a conference on Corporate Governance and Economic Performance. Their book, Aspects of Corporate Governance, contains proceedings from their December 1993 symposium. The issues discussed remain current.
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Corporate Governance International (CGI)
20/Floor, Sunning Plaza, 10 Hysan Avenue
Causeway Bay
Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2863 2600
Fax: (852) 2620 6646
e-mail: customer.support@smlawpub.com.hk
Corporate Governance International (CGI) is a quarterly journal published by Sweet & Maxwell Asia on behalf of the Hong Kong Institute of Company Secretaries. With international coverage, CGI takes an analytical approach, focusing on practice issues involving this important area of corporate life. Sweet & Maxwell Asia, a division of the Thomson Corporation, is a leading publisher for legal practitioners and professionals.
Corporate Governance: The International Journal for Effective Board Performance
Emerald, 60/62 Toller Lane, Bradford BD8 9BY, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1274 777700 Fax: +44 (0)1274 785201
e-mail: info@emeraldinsight.com
Subscription: $199 4 issues per year (includes multiple access via a free site license)
Editors: Dr Samuel M. Natale and Dr Anthony Libertella
Adelphi University, New York, USA
Get a deeper understanding of corporate governance - what it is, how it works and what it demands of both you and your organization. Corporate Governance will enable you to track international legal and governmental developments and to develop and sustain high professional board standards. Every issue features in-depth international case studies that will give you vital insights into major issues and trends, problems and their solutions.
Corporate Governance: An International Review
Blackwell Publishers Journals
PO Box 805
108 Cowley Road
Oxford OX4 1FH
Email: jnlinfo@blackwellpublishers.co.uk
Fax: +44 1865 381381Subscriptions $60 4 issues/yr.
Editor: Christine Mallin
The Review is the only journal to take a truly international perspective on issues and developments in the theory and practice of the governance of public and private companies, subsidiary and associate companies, entities in strategic alliances, family firms, government enterprises and not-for-profit professional practice articles and case studies also discuss practical experiences in the field.
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Corporate Governance Review: Fairvest Securities Corp
Fairvest Corporation
67 Yonge St., Suite 1400
Toronto, ON
M5E 1J8 Canada
vpiersig@fairvest.com
Tel: 416.364.9000
Fairvest is the leading provider of Canadian corporate governance research and related services tailored for Canadian institutional investors. Fairvest, now owned by Institutional Shareholder Services of Rockville, Maryland, analyzes corporate governance proxy issues for over 1500 Canadian corporations, provides agency voting services, and provides guidance to corporations amending proxy proposals that money managers find contentious. Fairvest publishes the bimonthly publication "Corporate Governance Review" which provides news and views of interest to shareholders designed to speak to a broader audience. The subscriber base is quite broad and includes law firms, universities, corporations and institutional investors. Subscriptions are C$295 plus GST for six issues.
Council of Institutional Investors
1730 Road Island Avenue, NW #512, Washington, DC 20036
Telephone: (202) 822-0800.
Cost: $2,000 - $25,000
The assets of members of CII is about $1 trillion. CII studies issues of corporate governance affecting the well-being and financial security of member participants and their plan beneficiaries. CII also recommends positions on legislative, administrative and regulatory actions affecting members.
Crystal Report on Executive Compensation
5 Verbena Court
San Rafael, CA 94903
Tel. 415/479-0431
Fax: 415/479-0432
Graef S. Crystal: graefc@aol.com $495/year
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Davis Global Advisors
57 Hancock Street
Newton, Mass. 02166
Tel. 617/630-8792
Fax: 617/630-0398
dga@davisglobal.com
Davis Global Advisors is a consulting firm specializing in global corporate governance shaped for each market and situation. Subscriptions to their publication, Global Proxy Watch, are US$1,500 for one year (46 issues) or US$800 for six months (23 issues). They also offer a free, four-week trial on request. GPW is faxed weekly on Thursday nights. Subscribers in 16 countries include institutional investors, stock exchanges, companies, accounting firms, executive search firms, compensation consultants, professional director bodies, law firms and others.
Directors & Boards
1845 Walnut Street, 9th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
1-800-637-4464
Cost: $295/year.
James Kristie, Editor
Directors & Boards, founded in 1976, is a journal specializing in provocative analyses of corporate board composition and practices. Publishes an annual Directors Yearbook listing the year's new board appointments which includes a year-in-review set of articles.
Directorship The Business Resource for Independent Directors
800 Boylston Street, Suite 402
Boston, MA 02199
Tel: 617.399.3090
Fax: 617.399.3092
e-mail: subs@directorship.com
Cost: Individual Subscription: $295/yr
Full Board Subscription: $2950/yr (14 board members, C-level officers, and professional advisors)
30+ year old organization committed to providing board directors and CEOs with information they need in this new era of corporate governance through magazine Directorship, website Directorship.com, Boardroom Forums, Directorship Councils, newsletters, and more.
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Georgeson & Company
Wall Street Plaza
New York, New York 10005
TEL: 212.440.9800
David Drake, Managing Director
The oldest and largest proxy solicitation and investor relations firm. Georgeson pioneered the business in 1935 and currently handles over 600 security holder transactions each year. It has a staff of over 150 people involved in proxy solicitation, governance consulting and various security holder analytical services. The firm's size gives it the ability to develop, analyze and store vast amounts of information about institutional investors, including their voting policies and investment objectives.
The Global Corporate Governance Research Center
Dr. Carolyn Kay Brancato, Director
The Conference Board
845 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10022-6679
Telephone: 212 759 0900, Fax: 212 980 7014
E-mail: info@conference-board.org
The Institutional Investment Report is published three times per year. Volume one focuses on total assets and equity holding; volume two tracks concentration of ownership and trading and turnover; and volume 3 analyzes U.S. institutional investments in foreign companies and other institutional investment trends.
Price: $325 (3 issues) for Associate Members, $650 for Non-associates, $130 Academic rate.
The Center develops governance solutions to enhance global growth by bringing together CEOs and other senior leaders from corporations, institutional investors, and public entities worldwide to shape and support objective, internationally recognized research; improve communications and reduce tensions; and develop benchmarks and best practices.
Good Governance
BoardWorks International
P O Box 1630
Wellington, New Zealand
phone: 64 4 499 7054; fax: 64 4 473 6162
E-mail Address: nahkies@boardworksinternational.com
Cost: $72/year (6 isues)
Provides board members, chief executives and others interested in effective leadership with stimulating, up-to-date information about governance "best practices."
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Governance: The International Corporate Governance Newsletter
Editor: Kit Bingham
Governance Publishing & Information Services Ltd, Watchfield House,
Watchfield, Nr Highbridge, Somerset TA9 4RD, UK
Subscriptions and information - tel: +44 (0)1278 793 300; fax: +44 (0)1278
783 750; email: info@governance.co.uk
Editorial - tel: +44 (0)20 7328 6656; fax: +44 (0)20 7328 7237; email
kbingham@governance.co.uk
Governance is a monthly newsletter on international issues of corporate governance, shareholder activism and boardroom performance. Articles are succinct, practial and often written by practioners in the field. Contact details and useful web addresses are included. A sample issue of Governance and free articles may be downloaded at www.governance.co.uk
Published monthly.
Price: $365 (1 year) or $605 (2 years)
The Hong Kong Institute of Company Secretaries
With Sweet & Maxwell, publishes the Company Secretary
22/F, Prosperous Commercial Building
54-58 Jardine's Bazaae, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Tel: 852-2881-6177 Fax: 852-2881-5050 e-mail: ask@hkics.org.hk
Subscription: HK$800; Overseas subscribers add postage and handling.
The Institute's principal aim is to promote and advance the efficient administration of commerce, industry and public affairs but representing the intersts of company secretaries in Hong Kong. The Comapny Secretary is published 12 times a year and is sent to members and students of the HKICS.
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Institute of Directors
116 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5ED
Telephone: 44-171-839 1233
October 24, 1995,"Enterprise & Governance" proceedings available from Andrea Lewis,
Director Publications Ltd, Mountbarrow, House, Elizabeth Street, London SW1W 9RB
FAX: 44-171 235 5627 at a cost of £10
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Institute of Internal Auditors
Tone at the Top
Trish W. Harris
Managing Editor
Tel: 407 830-7600, Ext. 227
Fax: 407 831-5171
E-mail: tharris@theiia.org
Tone at the Top is a quarterly newsletter designed to provide executive management, boards of directors, and audit committees with concise, leading-edge information on such issues as ethics, internal control, governance, and the changing role of internal auditing; and guidance relative to their roles in and responsibilities for the internal auditing function.
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS)
7200 Wisconsin, Ave., Suite 1001, Bethesda, MD
Tel:(301) 215-9622
e-mail: form
ISS is the world's leading provider of proxy voting and corporate governance services with more than 350 institutional clients throughout the world. They analyze proxy issues and recommend votes for approximately 10,000 shareholder meetings each year. In addition, ISS rates companies on corporate governance from 1 to 100, with 100 being a perfect score, based on seven aspects of corporate governance, from executive and director compensation to board structure and composition. One scale rates the company, another its peers.
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Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
Room 566
475 Riverside Drive
New York, N.Y. 10115
(212) 870-2293
Cost: newsletter $50/yr
Investor Relations Business
11 Penn Plaza
17th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Editor: Howard Stock
Subscription: $550 per annum
212 631 9750
e-mail: howard.stock@tfn.com
Cost: $550 per annum
Investor Relations Business provides up to the minute information on SEC, legislative, and FASB financial reporting changes. Additional features include profiles of IR people, case studies and money managers, practice management stories and updates on shareholder activism and corporate governance news.
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Investor Relations Magazine
Cross-Border Publishing
61 Broadway, 17th floor
New York, NY 10006
Telephone: 1-212-425-9649
Fax: 1-212-425-7589 or
111-113 Great Titchfield
London, UK W1P 7FQ
Telephone: +44 171 637 3579
Fax: +44 171 637 3594
one-year subscription at US $250 (£ 150)
two-year subscription at US $460 (£ 280)
The only monthly magazine that looks at all areas of IR from a global perspective. Essential reading for those concerned with the interface between companies and their investors.
Investor Responsibility Research Center
Suite 700, 1350 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 833-0700.
Cost: Corporate Governance Bulletin $375/yr., Corporate Governance Highlights
In addition to newsletters, such as the quarterly Bulletin and the weekly Corporate Governance Highlights, IRRC publishes books, special reports and proxy reports which give investors information they need to make voting decisions. In addition, IRRC provides software and on-line information services and puts together conferences for institutional investors.
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National Association of Corporate Directors
1707 L Street NW, Suite 560, Washington, D.C. 20036
Tel: (202) 775-0509
NACD is the only national organization devoted exclusively to providing information and board-level education regarding corporate governance issues. Their publication Director's Monthly provides a wide range of articles of broad and specialized interest.
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National Association of Pension Funds Ltd
12-18 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0DH
Tel: 0171 730
National Center for Employee Ownership
1201 Martin Luther King Jr. Way Oakland, CA 94612-1217
510-272-9461.
NCEO serves as the leading source of information on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and other forms of employee ownership.
Pensions & Investments Crain Communications, Inc
220 E. 42nd Street, 9th floor, New York, NY 10017
Phone: (212) 210-0114, Fax: (212) 210-0117
Email: RWray@crain.com
Cost: $205/yr
#1 newpaper for insitutional investing, money management, and corporate governance.
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Pensions World
Email: Customer_Services@tolley.co.uk
Phone: 0181 686 9141
Cost: UK: £65, Overseas: Surface £75 Airmail £117. Logon to Subscriptions.
Leading monthly magazine for pensions professionals. Founded in 1972, with a circulation of 8,000 subscribers, it is the most authoritative magazine on the market. Provides news and features written by specialists and an award winning team of journalists.
Ralph Ward's Boardroom Insider
The monthly online newsletter for better corporate directors.
First-year price is $149 or $495 to all board and board staff.
Ralph Ward is the author of the 21st Century Corporate Board and the editor of the Corporate Board: The Journal of Corporate Governance.
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Russell Reynolds Associates
200 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166
Contact: Sally Laroche (213) 351-2000
1995 survey "Redefining Corporate Governance"
1997 survey "Setting New Standards for Corporate Governance". In the past year alone, 77% of the investors surveyed have communicated their opinions directly to a board either verbally or by letter, sought more direct involvement in board oversight, sponsored a shareholder resolution or voted in favor of one.
Strategic Corporate Research, Inc.
e-mail: Proxynews@aol.com
1202 Lexington Avenue, Suite 163
New York, NY 10028
(212) 570-0273.
Cost: Corporate Databank $250/yr. (12 issues)
In addition to publishing a newsletter, Strategic Corporate Research tracks takeover defenses, including poison pills adopted by US companies; provides consulting services, reports, and a database product containing CEO and director changes, repurchase plans, stock splits, recent changes in stock exchange listings, corporate name changes, and changes in companies' jurisdiction of incorporation. Additionally, Strategic Corporate Research provides vote recommendations, primarily to individual high net worth investors desiring more information on proxy issues.
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