Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: rethinking corporate governance – lessons from the global financial crisis
- Part I The failure of the market approach to corporate governance
- Part II Ownership, internal control and risk management: the roles of institutional shareholders and boards
- Part III Post-crisis corporate governance: the search for new directions
- 12 Corporate governance, capital market regulation and the challenge of disembedded markets
- 13 The focus of regulatory reforms in Europe after the global financial crisis: from corporate to contract governance
- 14 The Great Recession's impact on global corporate governance
- 15 Corporate governance in the Islamic finance industry and mitigation of risks post the global financial crises
- 16 A holistic approach to corporate governance: lessons from the financial crisis and the way forward
- Index
- References
12 - Corporate governance, capital market regulation and the challenge of disembedded markets
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: rethinking corporate governance – lessons from the global financial crisis
- Part I The failure of the market approach to corporate governance
- Part II Ownership, internal control and risk management: the roles of institutional shareholders and boards
- Part III Post-crisis corporate governance: the search for new directions
- 12 Corporate governance, capital market regulation and the challenge of disembedded markets
- 13 The focus of regulatory reforms in Europe after the global financial crisis: from corporate to contract governance
- 14 The Great Recession's impact on global corporate governance
- 15 Corporate governance in the Islamic finance industry and mitigation of risks post the global financial crises
- 16 A holistic approach to corporate governance: lessons from the financial crisis and the way forward
- Index
- References
Summary
Long before the present investigations into the role of corporate governance regulation in the coming of the financial crisis (Cheffins, 2009), corporate law had long become a highly dynamic regulatory laboratory for the study of a fast-transforming body of norms governing corporate activities worldwide. The immense attention that the field has been attracting over the past thirty years from legal scholars, economists, political scientists, sociologists and even psychologists (Aguilera et al., 2004) amply testifies to the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of corporate governance. Partly, this development is owed to the dramatic transformation of corporate law over the recent past, mostly influenced by the rapid expansion of global capital markets, which have placed enormous pressure on the different existing national legal cultures pertaining to company law, labour law and industrial relations regulation. The international competition over investment and the innovation of ever-new and more flexible financial instruments have over time induced a fundamental transformation of corporate governance that is frequently referred to as a rise of ‘financialism’ (Mitchell, 2011; Zumbansen, 2011) and which has led to a far-reaching change in the understanding of the business corporation from an organizational entity geared towards economic growth to an investment vehicle with a very particular set of expectations attached to it (Lazonick, 1991).
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- Corporate Governance and the Global Financial CrisisInternational Perspectives, pp. 248 - 283Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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