The contributors – top international scholars from finance, law and business – explore the role of governance, both internal and external, in explaining risk-taking and other aspects of the behavior of financial institutions. Additionally, they discuss market and policy features affecting...

"This book focuses on intergenerational equity - the fairness to provide an at least as favorable standard of living as experienced today - and the contemporary trends in intergenerational responsibility in the private sectors"--

About the authors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Market behaviour, stakeholders : approach and good governance -- Agency theory : explaining or creating problems? good governance and ethical behaviour for sustainable business / Guler Aras and Paul Williams -- Using a stakeholder approach to...