Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Reframing corporate governance: behavioral assumptions, governance mechanisms, institutional dynamics / Anna Grandori
  • PART I. CONTINGENT STRUCTURES AND MULTIPLE RIGHTHOLDERS: CO-DESIGNING GOVERNANCE AND ORGANIZATION
  • Comparative institutional analysis of corporate governance / Masahiko Aoki
  • The neglected benefits of the corporate form: entity status and the separation of asset ownership from control / Margaret M. Blair
  • Governing with multiple principals: an empirically-based analysis of capital providers' preferences and superior governance structures / Anna Grandori, Giuseppe Soda
  • Corporate governance in international joint ventures: toward a theory of partner preferences / John Child, Suzana B. Rodrigues
  • Information intermediaries' incentives nad corporate strategy choices in the US / Patrick Moreton, Todd Zenger
  • PART II. BEYOND 'CONTROL AND ALIGNMENT': NON-ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES AND RELATIONAL GOVERNANCE
  • Economy, society, and worker representation in corporate governance / Michael J. Piore
  • Corruption, fraud, and corporate governance: a report on Enron / Paul Windolf
  • Corporate governance for crooks? The case for corporate virtue / Margit Osterloh, Bruno S. Frey
  • Myopic opportunism and joint production: a relational approach to corporate governance / Siegwart Lindenberg
  • The benefit of doubt: shadow norms and governance in trust-based organizations / Joseph Lampel
  • The governance of innovation: the case of Rolls-Royce plc / William Lazonick, Andrea Prencipe
  • PART III. EXPLAINING DIFFERENCE AND CHANGE IN CORPORATE GOVERANCE SYSTEMS: BEYOND THE CONVERGENCE/DIVERGENCE DILEMMA
  • Explaining western securities markets / Mark J. Roe
  • Convergence of corporate governance during the stock market buble: towards Anglo-American or European standards? / Steen Thomsen
  • The worldwide diffusion of codes of good governance / Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Ruth V. Aguilera
  • From colleague to employee: determinants of changing career governance structures in elite law firms / Ryon Lancaster, Brian Uzzi.