02291nam a22003378a 4500 CR9781139177375 UkCbUP 20171019123614.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 111031s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139177375 (ebook) 9781107025110 (hardback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda K1327 .C6524 2013 346/.0662 23 Comparative Corporate Governance : A Functional and International Analysis / Edited by Andreas M. Fleckner, Klaus J. Hopt. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (1176 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). The business corporation is one of the greatest organizational inventions, but it creates risks both for shareholders and for third parties. To mitigate these risks, legislators, judges, and corporate lawyers have tried to learn from foreign experiences and adapt their regulatory regimes to them. In the last three decades, this approach has led to a stream of corporate and capital market law reforms unseen before. Corporate governance, the system by which companies are directed and controlled, is today a key topic for legislation, practice, and academia all over the world. Corporate scandals and financial crises have repeatedly highlighted the need to better understand the economic, social, political, and legal determinants of corporate governance in individual countries. Comparative Corporate Governance furthers this goal by bringing together current scholarship in law and economics with the expertise of local corporate governance specialists from twenty-three countries. Fleckner, Andreas M., editor of compilation. Hopt, Klaus J., editor of compilation. Print version: 9781107025110 International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139177375 225750 225750