Includes bibliographical references and index

Comparative corporate governance : the state of the art and international regulation / Klaus J. Hopt -- Australia : the architecture of corporate governance / Jennifer G. Hill -- China : corporate governance of business organizations / Junhai Liu and Knut B. Pissler -- Taiwan : corporate governance of publicly held companies / Wen-Yeu Wang and Wang-Ruu Tseng -- Japan : listed companies' corporate governance / Nobuo Nakamura -- Austria : legal framework of corporate governance / Susanne Kalss -- Belgium : the legal system of corporate governance / Alexia Autenne -- Denmark : corporate governance in Denmark / Jan S. Christensen -- Finland : corporate governance : nordic tradition with American spices / Jukka T. Mähönen -- France : the permanent reform of corporate governance / Pierre-Henri Conac -- Georgia : corporate governance of business corporations / Lado Chanturia and George Jugeli -- Germany : internal and external corporate governance / Hanno Merkt -- Hungary : corporate governance of listed companies / Péter J. Nikolicza -- Luxembourg : corporate governance of listed companies / Isabelle Corbisier and Pierre-Henri Conac -- Netherlands : corporate governance in the Netherlands / Jaron van Bekkum, Steven Hijink, Michael C. Schouten and Jaap W. Winter -- Norway : corporate governance on the outskirts of the EU / Beate Sjåfjell and Cecilie Kjelland -- Poland : corporate governance of joint stock companies / Stanislaw Soltysiński -- Portugal : synopsis on corporate governance / Jorge M. Coutinho de Abreu -- Spain : listed companies' governance / José A. García-Cruces González and Ignacio Moralejo Menéndez -- Switzerland : the system of corporate governance / Peter V. Kunz -- United Kingdom : the scope and dynamics of corporate governance regulation / Marc T. Moore -- Argentina : corporate governance of private and public companies / Raúl A. Etcheverry and Rafael M. Manóvil -- Brazil : new developments in corporate governance / Nelson L. Eizirik and Ana C. Weber -- United States : corporate governance for publicly traded corporations / Arthur R. Pinto and Franklin A. Gevurtz.