"This book is organized around three sections, following a circular approach; it goes from external to internal environment and then back to the external one. It emphasizes the main challenges of the post-industrial society and sheds light on several sources of turbulence from the national,...

"The globalization of capital markets since the 1980s has been accompanied by a vigorous debate over the convergence of corporate governance standards around the world towards the shareholder model. But even before the financial and economic crisis of 2008/2009, the dominance of the shareholder...