Governing the Corporation

Regulation and Corporate Governance in an Age of Scandal and Global Markets

Justin O'Brien, Justin O'Brien

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2005
• ISBN:
  9780470017531
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Finance
• Index: Business

Governing the Corporation is a unique forum combining the insights of some of the most influentialminds involved in the governance of global financial markets with internationally recognised academics and practitioners.

Divided into three sections, the book first examines changes to the regulation of markets and assesses the global implications of the export of Sarbanes-Oxley for financial sector governance. The second section examines the challenges facing the professions with critical analysis from leading lawyers and accountants. The final section calculates the effectiveness of state and self-regulatory policy and posits the importance of institutionalising an ethical framework tied to incentives. Each section of the book features contributions from regulators, practitioners and academics from a range of disciplines, including finance, political science, criminology, law and philosophy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Governing the Corporation: Regulation and Corporate Governance in an Age of Scandal and Global Markets
• 2 Restoring Trust After Recent Accountability Failures
• 3 Accountability in the Age of Global Markets
• 4 European Responses to Corporate Governance Challenges
• 5 Economic Globalisation and National Corporate Governance Reform
• 6 From Workers to Global Politics: How the Way We Work Provides Answers to Corporate Governance Questions
• 7 Multilateral Regulatory Initiatives – A Legitimation-based Approach
• 8 Corporate Social Responsibility as Regulation: The Argument from Democracy
• 9 The Criminological Lens: Understanding Criminal Law and Corporate Governance
• 10 Detecting Fraud and Managing the Risk
• 11 After Enron: Corporate Governance, Creative Compliance and the Uses of Corporate Social Responsibility
• 12 The Role of Lawyers: Hired Guns or Public Servants?
• 13 Financial Reporting, Corporate Governance and Parmalat: Was it a Financial Reporting Failure?
• 14 Corporate Regulation in Ireland
• 15 Corporate Governance – More than a State of Mind?
• 16 Redesigning Financial Regulation: Eliot Spitzer, State–Federal Relations and the Battle for Corporate Control
• 17 Public Trusteeship: The Responsibilities of Transparency and Legacy
• Bibliography
• Index