Revised edition of the author's International corporate governance, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Foreword to the first edition -- P reface to the second edition -- Cycles of governance -- Boards and dire ctors : the political mechanisms of corporate governance -- Finance, la w and markets : the institutional elements of corporate governance -- A nglo-American corporate governance -- European corporate governance -- Asia-Pacific corporate governance -- Corporate governance in the emergi ng economies -- The globalisation of corporate governance -- Corporate social responsibility -- Corporate sustainability -- Appendix: -- Enron -era : case studies -- Enron -- Worldcom -- HIH insurance -- Parmalat - - Global financial crisis case studies -- Lehman Brothers -- Royal Bank of Scotland -- UBs -- Iceland -- Asia-Pacific case studies -- Satyam - - Olympus -- Corporate responsibility and sustainability case studies - - James Hardie -- BP -- Volkswagen -- Index.