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Corporate governance has become an important issue for Chinese and Indian firms as they increasingly interact with regulators and investors from developed markets. For instance, tapping into global capital markets to raise funds to finance their domestic and international growth requires firms from China and India to demonstrate strong corporate governance credentials, so that investors do not discount their stock (LaPorta, Lopez-de-Silanes, Shleifer, & Vishny, 2000). The swift action of Chinese and Indian authorities in response to recent corporate scandals – such as the one at Satyam Computers – reveals that even governments in emerging countries such as China and India see the need to promote good corporate governance to ensure the inflow of capital and the outflow of products. Furthermore, understanding corporate governance standards and issues in China and India is also important to executives of foreign multinationals doing business in these two countries.

Das europäische Verwaltungsrecht steht vor Koordinierungsproblemen, die es mit einer eigenen Perspektive auf Governance einzufangen hat. Am Beispiel der europäischen Regulierungsverbünde in den Netzwirtschaften wird deutlich, wie neue Formen exekutiver Zusammenarbeit, die auf die Institutionalisierung horizontalen Vertrauens ausgerichtet sind, entstehen. Das hat Konsequenzen. Stärker als bisher müssen Entkoppelungen von Politik und Recht in den Beobachtungsrahmen eingestellt werden. Recht, so argumentiert der Beitrag, hat horizontalen Freiheitsgefährdungen auch dort zu begegnen, wo der Rückgriff auf den Willen eines kollektiven Makrosubjekts aus-scheidet, universelle Vernunft aber nicht zu haben ist.

HauptbeschreibungThis book looks at the consequences and implications of an emerging new way of local politics in Europe. With the term »governance«, changes in the political and social constitution of cities are analysed. Based on theoretical and empirical studies by scholars from ten countries, different aspects of »urban governance« will be presented

What role do contract enforcement institutions provided by the state play for economic development? This question has often been addressed. However, empirical research in this field looks predominantly at transactions that are conducted domestically. Less research exists regarding the enforceability of contracts in cross-border transactions. In other words, research that addresses the institutional foundations of international exchange processes is still in its infancy. The following case study investigates the contract enforcement institutions that enable German customers to purchase software in Asian and East European Countries. This paper's main argument is that nation states are not capable of providing a workable legal infrastructure for cross-border transactions. Instead, economic actors create their own informal mechanisms in order to enforce their contracts. Particularly important are relational contracts and reputational networks. Furthermore, the empirical evidence shows that German enterprises comprehensively use the opportunities offered by new developments in information and communication technology, when it comes to the initiation and control of their foreign business relations. Due to such technical innovation, it therefore seems that both reputational networks and relational contracts gain more and more efficiency compared to state private law.

This e-book explores the impact of corporate governance practices within the framework of accounting issues to illustrate the importance of financial statements and the role governance plays in maintaining accounting quality. The authors highlight the importance of contextual factors in corporate governance research that is based on different organizational and institutional environments, and are in many ways complementary, as the focus on corporate governance mechanisms that inform capital markets. Taken together, they represent a comprehensive overview of current corporate governance researc

'A comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the concepts embodied in governance and their wide-ranging applications and implications. An important read and reference for students and academics in the social sciences, particularly those engaged in public policy studies' - Professor Carolyn J. Heinrich, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 'An authoritative short survey for which students and teachers alike will be profoundly grateful' - Professor Rod Rhodes, University of Tasmania and Australian National University. 'Students of governance will welcome this book given the explosion of litera

Die Governance-Forschung stellt derzeit einen der wichtigsten und vielversprechendsten Forschungsschwerpunkte in den Sozialwissenschaften dar. Aufgrund ihres Gegenstandsbereichs ist interdisziplinäre Kooperation für die Governance-Forschung unverzichtbar. Komplexe Akteurkonstellationen und Regelungsprobleme, wie sie im Mittelpunkt ihres Forschungsprogramms stehen, lassen sich nur in Zusammenarbeit mehrerer sozialwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen angemessen bearbeiten.Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert in überarbeiteter Form die wissenschaftlichen Vorträge, die im Rahmen der Auftaktveranstaltung des Münchner Centrums für Governance-Forschung am 7. Dezember 2007 gehalten wurden. Ziel des Bandes ist, Stand und Perspektiven der Governance-Forschung aus der Perspektive der vier in der Gründungsphase am Centrum beteiligten Disziplinen zu präsentieren und vor diesem Hintergrund die Grundzüge des Forschungsprogramms des Centrums zu diskutieren. Mit diesem Band wird zugleich die neue Schriftenreihe des Münchner Centrums für Governance-Forschung beim Nomos-Verlag eröffnet, in der in den kommenden Jahren die Ergebnisse der Forschungsarbeit des Centrums einer interdisziplinären Fachöffentlichkeit vorgestellt werden sollen