Corporate Governance and Business Ethics

Preface.- Corporate Governance and Ethics: An Introduction; Alexander Brink .- ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.- 1. The Globalisation of Corporate Governance? Irresistible Markets Meet Immovable Institutions; Thomas Clarke .- 2. Regulation Complexity and the Costs of Governance; Steen Thomsen .- 3. Corporate Governance as an Institution to Overcome Social Dilemmas; Margit Osterloh, Bruno S. Frey, Hossam Zeitoun .- 4. Scandalous Co-Determination; Kai Kühne, Dieter Sadowski .- 5. Corporate Codes of Ethics: Can Punishments Enhance Their Effectiveness?; Till Talaulicar .- 6. Corporate Governance at the Chinese Stock Market: How It Evolved; Junhua Tang and Dirk Linowski.- PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.- 7. Philosophical Underpinnings to Corporate Governance: A Collibrational Approach; Steve Letza, Clive Smallman, Xiuping Sun, James Kirkbride.- 8. Aristotelian Corporate Governance; Alejo José G. Sison.- 9. Deliberative Democracy and Corporate Governance; Bert van de Ven, Wim Dubbink .- CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND BUSINESS ETHICS.- 10. The Firm as a Nexus of Stakeholders: Stakeholder Management and Theory of the Firm; Josef Wieland .- 11. Corporate Governance, Ethics and Sustainable Development; Aloy Soppe .- 12. Triadic Stakeholder Theory Revisited; Alexei M. Marcoux .- 13. Corporate Governance and Business Ethics; Andrew J. Felo .- 14. When Good Turns to Bad: An Examination of Governance Failure in a Not-for-Profit Enterprise; Chris Low .- 15. Integrity in the Boardroom: A Case for Further Research; Scott Lichtenstein, Les Higgins, Pat Dade .- 16. The Ethics of Corporate Governance in Global Perspective; G.J. (Deon) Rossouw .- 17. Do Stakeholder Interests Imply Control Rights in a Firm?; Ronald Jeurissen .- 18. The Implications of the New Governance for Corporate Governance; John R. Boatright .- List of Authors.

Alexander Brink, geboren 1970 in Düsseldorf, studierte zunächst Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Philosophie an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, ehe er im Herbst 1999 seine Promotion abschloss. Augenblicklich arbeitet er an einem unternehmensethischen Projekt in Kooperation mit einem deutschen Spezialchemiekonzern und der Privaten Universität Witten/Herdecke. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen auf den Gebieten der angewandten Ethik, der Unternehmensführung und des Shareholder-Value.