Governance is very much a current concern in the public interest. The global economic recession, from which we are just emerging, has highlighted failures in governance and regulation with much blame being laid at the feet of regulators and demands for perpetrators to be sanctioned accordingly....

The global economic recession from which we are just emerging, much as previous recessions, has highlighted failures in governance and failures in regulation. Indeed some have argued that the regulators are more guilty even than the perpetrators and should be sanctioned accordingly. There is of...

ch. 1. The function of corporate reporting -- ch. 2. Measuring and reporting performance -- ch. 3. Accounting for social and environmental performance -- ch. 4. Semiology and statistics : a methodology for analysis -- ch. 5. The performance discourse : measurement and evaluation -- ch. 6. The...