International Corporate Governance After Sarbanes-Oxley Hardcover - 2006

In International Corporate Governance After Sarbanes-Oxley, editors Paul Ali and Greg Gregoriou bring together some of the world's top experts on corporate governance. These experts--each of whom have contributed papers on the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (and legislation influenced by it) on corporate governance worldwide--share their in-depth insights and knowledge of this topic to help you to navigate the complex field of international corporate governance.

Divided into five comprehensive parts, Inter-national Corporate Governance After Sarbanes-Oxley offers accessible discussions of criticalissues such as:

• The ethical and political underpinnings of corporate governance and the relationship between corporate governance and economic performance and stock markets
• The corporate governance aspects of trans-actions in the global financial markets, including the governance of hedge funds, and the role of institutional and other investors in corporate governance
• Shareholder empowerment and the corporate governance implications of different owner-ship structures and the balance of power between shareholders
• Executive power and corporate governance measures directed at the board level
• The future of corporate governance, in terms of corporations and their internal/external stakeholders, family-dominated corporations, and the seeming ubiquity of corporate governance codes

Corporate governance has become a top priority for not only legal and accounting professionals, but also for those in the broader business and investment communities. Due to the measures taken by regulators around the world in response to the highly publicized collapses of Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat--as well as other corporate frauds and accounting scandals--corporate governance has become even more difficult to master. But with International Corporate Governance After Sarbanes-Oxley as your guide, you'll become familiar with some of the most important aspects of this discipline and learn how it could affect the way business is conducted around the world.