International corporate governance : a comparative approach /
Thomas Clarke.
- Second Edition.
- pages cm
Revised edition of the author's International corporate governance, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Foreword to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Cycles of governance -- Boards and directors : the political mechanisms of corporate governance -- Finance, law and markets : the institutional elements of corporate governance -- Anglo-American corporate governance -- European corporate governance -- Asia-Pacific corporate governance -- Corporate governance in the emerging economies -- The globalisation of corporate governance -- Corporate social responsibility -- Corporate sustainability -- Appendix: -- Enron-era : case studies -- Enron -- Worldcom -- HIH insurance -- Parmalat -- Global financial crisis case studies -- Lehman Brothers -- Royal Bank of Scotland -- UBs -- Iceland -- Asia-Pacific case studies -- Satyam -- Olympus -- Corporate responsibility and sustainability case studies -- James Hardie -- BP -- Volkswagen -- Index.