Corporate Governance. A Global Perspective.

The second edition of my highly acclaimed textbook "International Corporate Governance" was published by Cengage in spring  2018. The new edition follows the style and approach of the first edition, but its title will change to "Corporate Governance. A Global Perspective". The book can be ordered from Blackwells.

A new chapter on boards of directors has been added to the book. There has been extensive updating of the material throughout the book, reflecting advances in research on and practice in corporate governance (full details can be found here). The table of contents (subject to change) of version two is as follows:

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 – Macro Corporate Governance

4. Taxonomies of corporate governance systems
5. Corporate governance, types of financial systems and economic growth
6. Corporate governance regulation in an international context

Part III – Improving Corporate Governance

7. Boards of directors
8. Incentivising managers and the disciplining of badly performing managers
9. Corporate governance in emerging markets
10. Contractual corporate governance
11. Corporate governance in initial public offerings
12. Behavioural biases and corporate governance

Part IV – Corporate Governance and Stakeholders

13. Corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investment
14. Debtholders
15. Employee rights and voice across corporate governance systems
16. The role of gatekeepers in corporate governance

Part V – Conclusions

17. Learning from diversity and future challenges for corporate governance

Glossary
Index