Corporate Governance

Code:

2EAE12

Acronym:

GE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Management Studies

Instance: 2013/2014 - 1S (of 09-09-2013 to 20-12-2013)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Management
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Economics and Business Administration

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EAE	52	Bologna Syllabus since 2012	2	-	4	28	108

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The objective of the discipline is to develop the subject of Corporate Governance, an issue that has been gaining growing importance within Corporate Economics in general and Corporate Finance in particular, as well as to deal with the different aspects and imensions giving form to this new academic discipline.
Real world corporate governance cases will be studied and a systematic comparison will be made between the praxis of corporate governance and the concrete situations of corporate success and failure.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students are expected to obtain an effective understanding of the corporate governance problem, in all its implications, and also to exercise a capability for critical analysis of the real world corporate governance solutions.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1  .  Principles of Corporate Governance
2  .  The Theoretical Foundations of Corporate Governance
3  .  Corporate Structures and Government Bodies
4  .  The Evolution of the Discipline of Corporate Governance
5  .  The Main Corporate Governance Models
6  .  Corporate Risks and the Social Dimension of Corporate Governance
7  .  Corporate Governance in Portugal
8  .  Case Studies

Mandatory literature

Tricker, Bob; Corporate Governance: Principles, Policies and Practices, Oxford University Press Inc., 2009. ISBN: 978-0-19-955270-2

Teaching methods and learning activities

The tuition method consists in a combination of theoretically based tuition with the critical analysis of decision-making problems and situations, and the study of real world cases, but at national and international level.
The direct participation of students in the classroon is encouraged. Moreover, the class is organized into working groups, each one of which must submit an applied research work on a subject that will be proposed to tham.
The program of the discipline will exten through seven lectures divided in two parts. Each lecture will be object of a summary text and of an indication of specific readings.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Participação presencial	40,00
Trabalho escrito	10,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Calculation formula of final grade

Students final marks will result from the weighted average of the partial marks assigned to the following factors: final exam: 50%; group assignment: 40%; attendance and participation in lectures: 10%.