Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Board of Directors as a Corporate Governance Mechanism Principles, Practices, Proposals and New Challenges
Elena Merino and Montserrat Manzaneque (Contrated Lecturer /Full Professor, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain)
Chapter 2. Corporate Governance Practices and Performance of the Microfinance Sector
Sujani Thrikawala, Stuart Locke and Krishna Reddy (Department of Finance, Waikato Management School, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand)
Chapter 3. An Ethical and Virtues-Based Model of Leadership for a Good Governance Insights and Reflections between Theory and Practice
Del Baldo Mara (Department of Economics, Society and Politics, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy)
Chapter 4. Mechanisms for the Control and Alignment of Interests of Corporate Governance Participants in Transitional Economy
Mikhail V. Sinyutin, Alexander F. Borisov, Elena E. Tarando and Nikolay A. Pruel (Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
Chapter 5. Independent Directors and Policies Against Corruption: The Moderate Effects of Investor Protection
Isabel-María García-Sánchez, and Luis Rodríguez-Domínguez (Instituto Multidisciplinar de Empresa – IME, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)
Chapter 6. Best Practice in Practice: The Case of the Corporate Governance Code at the Warsaw Stock Exchange
Maria Aluchna and Emilia Tomczyk (Warsaw School of Econonics, Warsaw, Poland)
Chapter 7. Unprofessionalism in Finance Leads to Destructive Effects on Corporate Governance
Richard Guserl (Honorarprofessor, Johannes Kepler University Linzl, Austria)
Chapter 8. What we can Learn about Corporate Governance from the Directors’ and Officers’ Liability Insurance
Yan Luo, Victoria Krivogorsky (San Diego State University, CA, USA)
Chapter 9. Bank Risk-taking and the Board of Directors Role: Evidence from Japan
Hideaki Sakawa, and Naoki Watanabel (Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya City University, Japan, and others)
Chapter 10. Corporate Governance in Central and Eastern Europe
Iulia Lupu (Centre for Financial and Monetary Research “Victor Slãvescu”, Romania)
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