Book by Kees Cools wins the Orde van Organisatiekundigen en -Adviseurs prize
Controle is goed, vertrouwen nog beter. This book (in English: Control is good, trust even better) by Kees Cools, Professor of Corporate Finance at the Faculty of Economics, has won the Book of the Year Jury Prize awarded by the Orde van Organisatiekundigen en –Adviseurs.
The prize, which includes a work of art, was awarded during the Ernst Hijmans lecture that SER chairman Alexander Rinnooy Kan gave in Amsterdam.
There were three nominees for the OOA Book of the Year Jury Prize. According to the jury, Cools’s book won because it is ‘insistent, well founded and extremely readable. The book links theory to practice, touches on a theme that affects many of us and is partly based on new empirical research. The book is an invitation to further debate and reflection.’
Controle is goed, vertrouwen nog beter is about managers and corporate governance and shows what the consequences of the corporate governance boom have been. According to Cools, the real cause of the various fraud scandals was not poor formal corporate governance, but the sun-king behaviour of CEOs, greed and a belief in castles in the air.
| Last modified: | 31 January 2018 11.50 a.m. |
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