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...

Transnational corporations (TNCs) have moved to the forefront of regulatory governance both within states and in the international arena. The Research Handbook on Transnational Corporations provides expert background commentary and up-to-date insights into regulatory frameworks impacting on TNCs...

The Asian and world financial crisis of the late 1990s has shown the limits of governments as the sole or even the primary contributor to policy debates regarding the development of commercial law and economic development. Non-governmental scholarly and professional groups have an important...

This article discusses the extent to which rule of law principles have been embraced within the language, principles and practice of China’s Company Law. The paper discusses different understandings of the rule of law that are to be found in the wider literature. Whilst China has affirmed the...

This paper seeks to identify some broad theoretical dimensions of Australian corporations law reform. It has been rare for corporations law reformers to present themselves as being motivated by a particular theoretical approach, although sometimes this may be evident, such as where an inquiry...