Editorial: Interdisciplinary approach to corporate governance

A Multiple Network Approach to Corporate Governance

In this work, we consider Corporate Governance (CG) ties among companies from a multiple network perspective. Such a structure naturally arises from the close interrelation between the Shareholding Network (SH) and the Board of Directors network (BD). In order to capture the simultaneous effects of both networks on CG, we propose to model the CG multiple network structure via tensor analysis. I...

A relational approach to Corporate Governance design

The paper outlines a new pluralistic method for analyzing, assessing and improving corporate governance structures in their traits relevant both for financial and for human capital providers. The framework seeks to enlarge the rather universalistic approach to governance structures ‘ranking’ used in the economic (principal-agent) approach, introducing sensitiveness to some relevant contingencie...

An Information Theoretic Approach to Comparative Corporate Governance

Corporate Governance

The module will examine the ongoing convergence of the corporate and market laws in relation to the universal issues in doing international business ethically. We will review the corporate governance mechanisms, the methods of expropriating investors and the current reforms of ensuring corporate control and diminishing of the level of corporate abuse. Topics covered include comparative corporat...

Multilevel Governance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Theories of multilevel governance in International Relations (IR) and International Political Economy (IPE) literature remain in their infancy. These nascent conceptualisations of multilevel governance suffer from a number of methodological, theoretical and practical flaws. In the main these derive from an excessive reliance upon state centred understandings of political geography engendered by...