Strategies, Markets and Governance: Exploring Commercial and Regulatory Agendas

ISBN-13: 9780521868457 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 345 str.

Ralf Boscheck

Opis

Strategies, Markets and Governance addresses governance concerns at firm, industry, country and international levels.

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List of figures, boxes and tables; Acknowledgments; Preface; Notes on contributors; Section A. Introduction and Overview: 1. Strategies, markets and governance Ralf Boscheck; Section B. Firm-Level: 2. Competitive advantage and the regulation of dominant firms Ralf Boscheck; 3. Delegating regulation - supply-chain management, partnering and competition policy reforms Ralf Boscheck; 4. Diffusion of corporate governance regulation – France, Germany, the UK and the USA Ulrich Steger; 5. Corporate governance after ENRON et al Stewart Hamilton; 6. Trackling healthcare fraud!? Ralf Boscheck; 7. Watchdog and proxy war campaigns against firms Michael Yaziji; 8. Oil and conflict: Lundin Petroleum's experience in Sudan Christine Batruch; Section C. Industry-Level: 9. How the clean air interstate rule will affect investment and management decisions in the US electricity sector Caryl Pfeiffer; 10. EU water infrastructure management – national regulations, EU framework directives but no model to follow Ralf Boscheck; 11. Market-testing healthcare – managed care, market evolution and the search for regulatory principles Ralf Boscheck; 12. On governing natural resources Ralf Boscheck; Section D. Country/International Level: 13. Governing oil supply – fiscal regimes, NOCs and the steering of resource-based economies Ralf Boscheck; 14. China – external imperatives and internal reforms Jean-Pierre Lehmann; 15. EU constitutional governance – failure as opportunity!? Ralf Boscheck; 16. One competition standard to regulate global trade and protection Ralf Boscheck; Section E. An Observation in Closing: 17. Addressing the market paradox Ralf Boscheck.