Corporate governance encompasses the free enterprise system, which is treated comprehensively in this book from a German perspective. This distinguishes the book from other books written in English in this subject area, not only because of the comprehensive way it covers German corporate law and corporate governance, but also because of the fact that it provides international and European perspectives on these important topics. This second edition is an extensively revised and updated version of the first edition, in particular with a view to the worldwide debt crisis. The authors provide...

Standing out from the field due to its comprehensive coverage of German corporate law and governance, this updated and expanded second edition features a new chapter on compliance as well as exploring wider international perspectives on these vital issues.