Contemporary research on comparative corporate governance was initially preoccupied
with the question of differences in national systems of corporate governance. In recent years …

Corporate governance has become a topic of a worldwide political debate. A series of
events over the last two decades has placed corporate governance issues-including the …

The corporate governance systems of continental Europe have traditionally been quite
different to those of the liberal market economies (eg the US and the UK). Company …

This entry for the Palgrave dictionary looks at the recent literature on comparative corporate
governance. I examine reasons for the upswing in interest in comparative corporate …

The most fundamental distinction among models of corporate governance is the one made
between the shareholder and the stakeholder models. But in these times of globalization …

We survey two generations of research on corporate governance systems around the world,
concentrating on countries other than the US The first generation of international corporate …

This article, which introduces the special issue on corporate governance cosponsored by
the Review of Financial Studies and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) …

We seek to bring to the core of the study of comparative corporate governance analysis the
idea that within countries and industries, there exist multiple configurations of firm level …

I myself started to get interested in the subject of corporate governance (CG) more than 20
years ago. I became interested in it as a natural outcome of having worked on the theory of …

The ambition of Corporate Governance: An International Review (CGIR) is to publish articles
aimed at increasing our rigorous understanding of relevant corporate governance …