Table of Contents

1: Mike Wright, Donald S. Siegel, Kevin Keasey and Igor Filatotchev: Introduction
2: Ruth Aguilera, Michel Goyer and Luiz Ricardo Kabbach de Castro: Regulation and Comparative Corporate Governance
3: Brian R. Cheffins: The History of Corporate Governance
4: Mark J. Roe: Capital Markets and Financial Politics: Preferences and Institutions
5: Marina Martynova and Luc Renneboog: An International Corporate Governance Index
6: Annie Pye: Boards and Governance
7: Terry McNulty: Process Matters: Understanding Board Behavior and Effectiveness
8: Philip Stiles: Board Committees
9: Luc Renneboog and Yang Zhao: The Governance of Director Networks
10: Pamela Brandes and Palash Deb: Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance: What Do We "Know" and Where Are We Going?
11: David S. Boss, Brian L. Connelly, Robert E. Hoskisson and Laszlo Tihanyi: Corporate Governance: Ownership Interests, Incentives, and Conflicts
12: Robert Watson: Financial Leverage and Corporate Governance
13: Christof Beuselinck, Marc E. Deloof and Sophie Manigart: Financial Reporting, Disclosure and Corporate Governance
14: Andrea Mennicken and Michael Power: Auditing and Corporate Governance
15: Charlie Weir: The Market for Corporate Control
16: Steve Toms: The Life-cycle of Corporate Governance
17: Fabio Bertoni, Massimo G. Colombo and Annalisa Croce: Corporate Governance in High Tech Firms
18: Lorraine Uhlaner: Family Businesses and Corporate Governance
19: Igor Filatotchev and Debbie Allcock: Corporate Governance in IPOs
20: Nai H. Wu and Laszlo Tihanyi,: Corporate Governance, Multinational Firms, and Internationalization
21: Daphne Yiu, Xing Chen and Yuehua Xu: Corporate Governance in Business Groups
22: Kenneth M. Ayotte, Edith S. Hotchkiss, and Karin S. Thorburn: Governance in Financial Distress and Bankruptcy
23: Douglas Cumming and Sofia Johan: Venture Capital and Corporate Governance
24: Mike Wright, Donald S. Siegel, Miguel Meuleman, and Kevin Amess: Private Equity, Leveraged Buyouts and Corporate Governance
25: Na Dai: Hedge Fund Activism and Corporate Governance
26: Veljko Fotak, Jie Gao and William L. Megginson: The Financial Role of Sovereign Wealth Funds
27: Jenny Harrow and Susan D. Phillips: Corporate Governance and Nonprofits: Facing up to Hybridization and Homogenization
28: Andrew Pendleton and Howard Gospel: Corporate Governance and Labor
29: Mike W. Peng and Steve Sauerwald: Corporate Governance and Principal-Principal Conflicts
30: Robert E. Hoskisson, Jonathan D. Arthurs, Robert E.White and Chelsea Wyatt: Multiple Agency Theory: An Emerging Perspective
31: Geoffrey Wood and Mike Wright: An Age of Corporate Governance Failure?: Financialization and its Limits
32: Stephen J. Brammer and Stephen Pavelin: Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility

About the Author

Mike Wright is Professor of Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School and Visiting Professor at Erasmus University and University of Ghent. He is Director of the Centre for Management Buy-out Research, which he founded in 1986. He was conferred with the Award of Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in March 2011. He has published 50 authored/edited books and over 300 academic papers on corporate governance, academic entrepreneurship and
technology transfer, venture capital, private equity, and related topics in leading international journals. He is currently an editor of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. His latest books include Private
Equity Demystified (with John Gilligan, 3rd edition, 2012) and Entrepreneurship: Perspectives & Cases (with Paul Westhead, 2011). He was ranked #1 worldwide for publications in academic entrepreneurship 1981-2005 and for entrepreneurship 1995-2006.
Donald S. Siegel is Dean of the School of Business and Professor of Management at the University at Albany, SUNY. He received his bachelor's degree in economics and his master's and doctoral degrees in business economics from Columbia University. Dr. Siegel is editor of Academy of Management Perspectives and the Journal of Technology Transfer, an associate editor of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Learning & Education,
Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Corporate Governance: An International Review, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He has also co-edited 31 special issues of leading journals in
economics, management, and finance, and published 6 books, including most recently Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change and the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility (both Oxford University Press).
Kevin Keasey is Head of the Accounting and Finance Department and Director of the International Institute of Banking and Financial Services, the University of Leeds. He is the author of 11 books, monographs, and edited volumes on corporate governance, financial regulation, financial services, and financial markets, and is the author of over 115 refereed articles in leading international journals and over 80 other publications (such as book chapters, reports).
Igor Filatotchev is Associate Dean and Professor of Corporate Governance and Strategy at Cass Business School, City University London, and Director of Centre for Research on Corporate Governance at Cass. He has published more than one hundred refereed academic papers, in addition to numerous books and book chapters, in the fields of corporate governance and strategy including publications in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives,
Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, California Management Review, and Journal of Management. He is an Associate Editor in Corporate Governance
International Review and Journal of Management and Governance. His most recent book is Corporate Governance and the Business Life-cycle (Edward Elgar, 2010).