Corporate Governance and Entrepreneurship -- Initially Distracted: The Influence of Boards on Agency Costs in Initial Public Offering (IPO) Firms -- Horizontal and Vertical Relationships in Developing Economies: Implications for SMEs’ Access to Global Markets -- Corporate Governance Systems:...

"This book discusses the accounting policies firms use in different opportunistic circumstances in order to manage earnings, and to understand the corporate governance practices in different countries, and its relationship to firms' performance, and other dimensions of companies"--