University of British Columbia Press Corporate Governance in Global Capital Markets

The recent failures of Enron, WorldCom, and other large publiclytraded corporations have catapulted the issue of corporate governanceonto the international stage. In this timely book, Janis Sarra drawstogether the work of legal scholars and practitioners from across NorthAmerica to provide a comprehensive analysis of corporate governanceissues in global capital markets. The contributors to this collection explore the theoreticalunderpinnings of corporate governance and provide concrete illustrationof different models and their outcomes. While the perspectives of theauthors sometimes differ, their common project is to explore differentnormative conceptions of the corporation in order to contribute to ananalysis of global trends in corporate governance. The book measuresdiverse theoretical perspectives against the reality of corporateoperations in current capital markets, exploring the norms that informshifts in governance practice and the influence of regulatory regimeson governance change. Relationships both within and outside the firmare explored, including issues of accountability, ethics in decisionmaking, and notions of efficiency in generation of corporatewealth. Legal scholars and practitioners with an interest in corporations,insolvency, and securities, as well as corporate directors will welcomethis addition to their libraries.