Table of Contents

• Part I – Introduction to Corporate Governance
• 1 Defining corporate governance and key theoretical models
• 2 Corporate control across the world
• 3 Control versus ownership rights
• Part II – International Corporate Governance
• 4 Taxonomies of corporate governance systems
• 5 Incentivising managers and the disciplining of badly performing managers
• 6 Corporate governance, types of financial systems and economic growth
• 7 Corporate governance regulation in an international context
• Part III – Corporate Governance and Stakeholders
• 8 Corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investment
• 9 Debtholders
• 10 Employee rights and voice across corporate governance systems
• 11 The role of gatekeepers in corporate governance
• Part IV – Improving Corporate Governance
• 12 Corporate governance in emerging markets
• 13 Contractual corporate governance
• 14 Corporate governance in initial public offerings
• 15 Behavioural biases and corporate governance
• Part V – Conclusions
• 16 Learning from Diversity and Future Challenges for Corporate Governance
• Part VI – Glossary

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International Corporate Governance provides a thorough introduction to the state of the art of corporate governance research and practice.

About the Author

Marc Goergen is Professor of Finance at Cardiff Business School and a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He has published widely on corporate governance and corporate finance including in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Journal of Financial Intermediation and the Journal of Corporate Finance.