Theory and Practice of Corporate Governance: An Integrated Approach

Part I. The Discipline of Governance: 1. The landscape and definitions of governance: the major actors 2. Inward-facing governance 3. Outward-facing governance Part II. The Relationship Between Law and Governance: 4. The protection of the laws 5. Critical governance law Part III. Governance and the Listed Company: 6. The development of governance - the Governance Codes 7. The 2007-8 financial crises: the failure of systemic governance 8. Systemic governance: the Turner Review, the Walker Review and the Vickers Commission Part IV. Governance and Regulation: 9. The company and the stock market 10. Non-shareholder regulation of companies 11. Changes in regulatory structures - the PRA, the FCA and the ICB recommendations 12. Failure - the abiding characteristic of regulation 13. Accounting for profits: the root of information asymmetry 14. Reward and performance Part VI. Counter-Governance: Failures of Governance and Corporate Failure: 15. Counter-governance (1): theory 16. Counter-governance (2): abuse of stakeholders 17. Concluding remarks Bibliography Index.