Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Reframing corporate governance: behavioral assumptions, governance mechanisms, institutional dynamics / Anna Grandori -- PART I. CONTINGENT STRUCTURES AND MULTIPLE RIGHTHOLDERS: CO-DESIGNING GOVERNANCE AND ORGANIZATION -- Comparative institutional analysis of corporate governance / Masahiko Aoki -- The neglected benefits of the corporate form: entity status and the separation of asset ownership from control / Margaret M. Blair -- Governing with multiple principals: an empirically-based analysis of capital providers' preferences and superior governance structures / Anna Grandori / Giuseppe Soda -- Corporate governance in international joint ventures: toward a theory of partner preferences / John Child / Suzana B. Rodrigues -- Information intermediaries' incentives nad corporate strategy choices in the US / Patrick Moreton / Todd Zenger -- PART II. BEYOND 'CONTROL AND ALIGNMENT': NON-ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES AND RELATIONAL GOVERNANCE -- Economy, society, and worker representation in corporate governance / Michael J. Piore -- Corruption, fraud, and corporate governance: a report on Enron / Paul Windolf -- Corporate governance for crooks? The case for corporate virtue / Margit Osterloh / Bruno S. Frey -- Myopic opportunism and joint production: a relational approach to corporate governance / Siegwart Lindenberg -- The benefit of doubt: shadow norms and governance in trust-based organizations / Joseph Lampel -- The governance of innovation: the case of Rolls-Royce plc / William Lazonick / Andrea Prencipe -- PART III. EXPLAINING DIFFERENCE AND CHANGE IN CORPORATE GOVERANCE SYSTEMS: BEYOND THE CONVERGENCE/DIVERGENCE DILEMMA -- Explaining western securities markets / Mark J. Roe -- Convergence of corporate governance during the stock market buble: towards Anglo-American or European standards? / Steen Thomsen -- The worldwide diffusion of codes of good governance / Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra / Ruth V. Aguilera -- From colleague to employee: determinants of changing career governance structures in elite law firms / Ryon Lancaster / Brian Uzzi.