Corporate Governance and Initial Public Offerings

摘要

With corporate governance garnering so much attention, there are still few resources available for scholars and practitioners in the area of comparative corporate governance. In this ambitious undertaking, CGIR editors, Alessandro Zattoni and William Judge, worked with 32 other scholars with the goal of obtaining a better understanding of international corporate governance within the context of initial public offerings (IPOs). The result is a wellorganized compilation of the status of corporate governance and IPOs in 21 countries that covers 73 percent of the world's GDP. This book will be invaluable for anyone interested in up-to-date information on governance environments and the status of IPOs of any of the 21 countries analyzed. Most of what we know about governance is based on studies of US firms. Using the country expertise of 32 scholars, the book offers a detailed analysis of governance and IPOs of large well-developed countries such as the US, Germany, Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom, large emerging market countries such as India, China, and Russia and unique countries such as Nigeria, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.