Corporate Governance and Ethics

Corporate Governance and Ethics

Part-Time Programme

Why study this course at Birkbeck?

• Course teaching is underpinned by the work of the Centre for Corporate Governance and Ethics.

Corporate governance and business ethics are areas of rapidly growing importance in which Birkbeck has a pre-eminent research position. The core modules of this programme are concerned with the complex and changing relationships between business corporations, their various stakeholders, and the societies within which they operate. They are fully international in scope, covering European, American and Asian systems of corporate governance and adopting a cross-cultural perspective on contemporary issues of business ethics and society.

A key feature of the practice of both corporate governance and business ethics is that it brings together both economic and moral considerations, and this is reflected in a strongly interdisciplinary approach. While the main focus of the programmes is on the social, political, legal and moral aspects of how businesses are governed, they are also concerned with issues of business performance and the operation of financial markets.

Study Resources

We engage in significant collaborative research and have excellent contacts with many public and private sector organisations, professional bodies and researchers at other academic institutions.

The Birkbeck, University of London Centre for Corporate Governance and Ethics serves as an institutional complement to the programme, providing students and graduates with the opportunity to become involved in the work of the London Centre and in the global network of which it forms a part.