Explores the politics of changes in corporate governance regulation and the transnational forces driving the process. This book shows an increasing reliance on the application of market mechanisms and a tendency for corporations themselves to become commodities. It is useful for students and researchers of international political economy.

These changes in content and mode are driven by transnational actors, first of all the owners of internationally mobile financial capital and their functionaries such as coordination service firms, as well as by key public international agencies such as the European Commission. "The Transnational Politics of Corporate Governance Regulation" will be of interest to students and researchers of international political economy, politics, economics and corporate governance.

1. Introduction: Competing Theoretical Paradigms in the Study of Global Corporate Governance Regulation Part 1: Themes and Approaches
2. Explaining Corporate Governance Systems: Alternative Approaches 3. Towards a Historically Grounded Understanding of the Role of 'Corporate Governance Regulation' in the World of Globalizing Capitalism Part 2: The Marketisation of Corporate Control
4. The Politics of Creating a European Market for Corporate Control 5. The Transformation of Competition Control in Europe 6. The End of History in Corporate Governance? A Critical Appraisal
Part 3: The Role of Private Authority in Corporate Governance Regulation
7. Governance by Coordination Service Firms " "8. The Role of Private Actors in Global Governance and Regulation: US, European and International Convergence of Accounting and Auditing Standards in a Post Enron World Part 4: Integrating Emerging Market Economies
9. Foreign Direct Legislation, Informality, and the Iron Fist of Liberal Capitalism after the End of European State Socialism
10. Corporate Governance Structures in Post Socialist Transition Economies: Toward a Central Eastern European Model of Corporate Control?
11. Corporate Governance Regulation in Eastern Central Europe: The Role of Transnational Forces 12. Conclusions and Perspectives