Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures, Charts, Tables, Boxes and Appendixes -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Economic Development, Resource Governance and Globalisation: The Growth of China's Resources Companies -- 2 Resource Security and Corporate Social...

There is no doubt that both internal and external regulation of banks will need to be coordinated, but the main responsibility for effective regulation of banks and financial institutions lies within these institutions themselves. However, internal regulation needs to be backed up by effective...

The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 has demonstrated the fragility of prevailing corporate governance ideas and the weakness of legal means of minimizing risk and highlighting dangers in major banking corporations. Gatekeeper failure has undoubtedly been a significant contributor to this...

The global financial crisis has caused many to review the current effectiveness of prevailing corporate governance ideas in many developed countries, such as in the UK, the USA and in the EU more generally. We have seen a move away from a primary focus upon self regulation to a greater resort to...

The drafting of a new bankruptcy law for China proved to be a lengthy and agonizing process, but a new Enterprise Bankruptcy Law was finally enacted in 2006; China had reviewed the experiences of other countries and sought to introduce a new law that suited its socio-economic and political...