This volume examines the performance of corporate governance regimes since the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 and analyses whethe regulatory changes and corporate governance codes have made a difference.

1: Helmut K. Anheier and Christoph M. Abels: Corporate Governance in Comparative Perspective 2: Helmut K. Anheier and Christoph M. Abels: Corporate Governance: What are the Issues? 3: Theodor Baums: Listed Companies: Regulatory Tools and Current Reform Issues 4: Iris H-Y Chiu: Corporate Governance of Financial Corporations 5: Jonas Gabrielsson, Morten Huse, and Carl Åberg: Corporate Governance in Small and Medium Enterprises 6: Hanna Surmatz: Corporate Governance Regulation for Public Benefit Foundations in Europe 7: Gemma Donnelly-Cox, Michael Meyer, and Filip Wijkström: Nonprofit Governance 8: Johanna Mair, Miriam Wolf, and Alexandra Ioan: Governance in Social Enterprises 9: Cecilia Cannon and Thomas Biersteker: The Governance of International Organizations: Structural Components, Internal Mechanisms, and Contemporary Challenges 10: Ulf Pappenfuß: Public Corporate Governance 11: Daniela Stockmann: Media or Corporations? Social Media Governance between Public and Commercial Rationales 12: Julia Redenius-Hövermann: Behavioural Economics, Neuroeconomics, and Corporate Law 13: Helmut K. Anheier and Christoph M. Abels: Advances in Corporate Governance: Conclusion and Implications

Introduces readers to a broad range of approaches and organizational forms and is international in its scope Provides readers with an overview of past and current debates as well as issues and the way ahead Examines perspectives from law, economics, sociology, political science, and management studies; experts from academia and practice

Helmut K. Anheier is past President of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and Professor of Sociology. He is also a faculty member of the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. His research centres on indicator systems, social innovation, culture, civil society and philanthropy, and organisational studies. He held a Chair of Sociology at Heidelberg University and served as Academic Director of the Centre for Social Investment and Innovation. He was a senior researcher at the Johns Hopkins University's Institute for Policy Studies, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Anheier is author of over 500 publications and received various international awards. Theodor Baums was the director of the Institute for Banking Law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main and was one of the founders of the Institute for Law and Finance where he serves as a member of the management board. Prof. Baums has given numerous lectureships in Europe and in the U.S. Areas of current scholarly interest are corporations and capital markets. He has published more than 120 books and articles on corporations and civil and antitrust law. In 2005 he was awarded with the Euro Corporate Governance Quality Award by the Federal Minister of Justice and in 2006 with the Grand Cross 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Hertie School in Berlin prepares exceptional students for leadership positions in government, business, and civil society. The school offers master's, doctoral and executive education programmes distinguished by interdisciplinary and practice-oriented teaching, as well as outstanding research. Its extensive international network positions it as an ambassador of good governance, characterised by public debate and engagement. The school was founded in 2003 by the Hertie Foundation, which remains its major funder. The Hertie School is accredited by the state and the German Science Council.

Introduces readers to a broad range of approaches and organizational forms and is international in its scope Provides readers with an overview of past and current debates as well as issues and the way ahead Examines perspectives from law, economics, sociology, political science, and management studies; experts from academia and practice