Regulating Corporate Governance in the EU [electronic resource] : Towards a Marketization of Corporate Control /
Horn, L.author.
In the context of the financial and economic crisis, corporate governance and regulatory supervision failures, Laura Horn investigates one of the defining questions in social power relations in contemporary capitalism: who controls the modern corporation, and why.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Perspectives on corporate governance; Key concepts and scope of the book; Plan of the book; 2 Theoretical Framework; A critical political economy perspective; A critical political economy perspective on corporate governance regulation; A critical political economy perspective on corporate governance regulation in the European Union; 3 Global Capitalist Restructuring and Corporate Governance Regulation in the European Political Economy; Global capitalist restructuring
Capitalist restructuring in the European Union'Common trajectories' in corporate governance regimes; 4 Company Law in the European Union - From Industrial to Shareholder Democracy?; Initiation and legal base for the company law harmonization programme; Worker participation in European company law; Struggling over information and consultation - The European Company Statute and the developments in company law and corporate governance in the 1990s; European corporate governance regulation at the end of the 1990s
5 Corporate Governance Regulation in the European Union - From Harmonization to MarketizationFinancial market integration; The Takeover Directive; The HLG and other expert groups in the policymaking process; After Enron - corporate governance and the corporate scandals; Transparency and disclosure regulation; Towards a shareholder democracy?; The role of the European Court of Justice; Contestation and 'growing pains' of the marketization project; 6 The Marketization of Corporate Control as a Political Project; Anatomy of the marketization proj; Changing form of regulation
Social forces in the making of the marketization proThe transnational politics of corporate governance regulation: The marketization of corporate control revisited; 7 Corporate Governance in Crisis?; The global financial crisis and corporate governance; Regulatory responses in the European Union; 8 Conclusion; Corporate power and the state in the global political economy; Call for further research; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In the context of the financial and economic crisis, corporate governance and regulatory supervision failures, Laura Horn investigates one of the defining questions in social power relations in contemporary capitalism: who controls the modern corporation, and why.
European Union.
International relations.
International organization.
Political economy.
Corporate governance.
Diplomacy.
European Union Politics.
International Relations.
International Organization.
International Political Economy.
Corporate Governance.
Diplomacy.