Corporate, Public and Global Governance: The G8 Contribution

The intensifying pace of globalization has led to a questioning of the traditional approaches to governance at the corporate, national and international levels. The crash of the dot-com bubble and the outbreak of corporate accounting scandals in the United States, along with the debt burden of financial institutions in Japan and Europe, have led to demands for major reforms. Consequently, national governments are confronting stronger demands for new ways to regulate corporations to fulfil their social responsibilities and generate growth in a competitive world. This volume explores three central questions: what forms of corporate governance are most desirable for the globalizing world of the twenty-first century? What forms of public governance are most appropriate in this new age? And how well are the world's leading national governments pioneering the needed policies and practices? The book offers an analysis of the G8's role in assisting governments and corporations to work together to design and deliver a superior approach.

Michele Fratianni is W. George Pinnell Professor in the Department of Business Economics & Public Policy at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Paolo Savona is Professor of Political Economy at University of Rome Guglielmo Marconi, Italy. John J. Kirton is from the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada.