International Corporate Governance

Internet Links

• OECD Principles of Corporate Governance
  http://www.oecd.org/daf/governance/principles.htm
  http://www.oecd.org/daf/corporate-affairs/governance/
• World Bank Group, Corporate Governance: Best Practices (codes page)
  http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/privatesector/cg/codes.htm
  http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/privatesector/cg/index.htm
• Corporate Governance Network
  http://www.corpgov.net/
  http://www.corpgov.net/links/links.html
• International Corporate Governance (links to worldwide networks)
  http://www.corpgov.net/links/links.html#international
• Law-Related Corporate Governance Links
  http://www.corpgov.net/links/links.html#law
• European Corporate Governance Institute
  http://www.ecgi.org/
• European Corporate Governance Network
  http://www.ecgn.ulb.ac.be/ecgn/
• "International Corporate Governance", Encyclopedia of Corporate Governance
  http://www.encycogov.com/B14IntCorpGov.asp
• International Corporate Governance Network
  http://www.icgn.org/
• Corporate Governance Codes, Principles and Recommendations
  (full texts of codes from around the world and/or citations)
  http://www.ecgi.org/codes_and_principles.htm http://www.ecgn.ulb.ac.be/ecgn/codes.htm
• Social Science Research Network's electronic journals containing abstracts of working papers and accepted journal articles related to corporate governance (from the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) and the Financial Economics Network (FEN)):
  
  • Corporate Law: Finance and Corporate Governance Law Abstracts (e-journal)
    http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/lsn_corp-governance.html
  • Corporate Finance: Governance, Corporate Control and Organization Abstracts (electronic journal)
    http://www.ssrn.com/update/fen/fen_governance.html
• Centre for International Corporate Governance (Nottingham Business School)
  (see also the International Task Force on Corporate Governance of the
  International Capital Markets Group (ICMG))
  http://www.nbs.ntu.ac.uk/cicg/
• Corporate Governance: International Research (listing of selected readings
  - books and journals articles published worldwide - compiled by the World Bank)
  http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/privatesector/cg/research.htm
• Separation of Ownership and Control (bibliography of books and articles on
  Corporate Governance from the Encyclopedia of Law and Economics via the
  FindLaw "Law and Economics" page at http://lawecon.findlaw.com/)
  http://encyclo.findlaw.com/biblio/5630.html
• The Separation of Ownership and Control: A Survey of 7 European Countries:
  Preliminary Report to the European Commission (Brussels:
  European Corporate Governance Network, 1997). 4v.
  http://www.ecgn.ulb.ac.be/ecgn/citation.htm
• Principles of Corporate Governance: Analysis and Recommendations
  (American Law Institute, 1994)
  http://www.ali.org/ali/stu_corp_gov.htm
• Corporate Governance: The Combined Code and Its Source Documents
  (UK corporate governance codes and other related books)
  http://www.gee.co.uk/
• Comparative Corporate Governance : The State of the Art and Emerging Research (edited by Klaus J. Hopt; Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998)
  http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-826888-2
• Comparative Corporate Governance : Essays and Materials
  (edited by Klaus J. Hopt, Eddy Wymeersch; Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1997)
  http://www.degruyter.de/
• Studies in International Corporate Finance and Governance Systems:
  A Comparison of the US, Japan, and Europe (Donald Chew, Stern Stewart Management Company, 1997)
  http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-510795-0

Related journals include the Corporate Governance Bulletin, CGI: Corporate Governance International (Sweet & Maxwell Asia), Corporate Governance - An International Review (Blackwell), Journal of Corporate Finance (Elsevier), and the Bank and Corporate Governance Law Reporter (Computer Law Reporter, Inc. at http://www.lawreporters.com/bcglr.htm), some of which are covered by the CARL UnCover journal tables of contents service at http://uncweb.carl.org/.

UnCover enables a free author, title, keyword searches and has a journal issue browse feature.

See also:
"Converging Cultures: Trends in European Corporate Governance" (PriceWaterhouseCoopers "Survey Report", April 1997)
http://www.pwcglobal.com/uk/eng/ins-sol/survey-rep/surv-converging.html
and "Improving Corporate Governance: Lessons from the European Community", Benjamin T. Lo, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (Fall 1993) http://www.law.indiana.edu/glsj/vol1/lo.html.

• Securities Lawyer's Deskbook (Center for Corporate Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law)