Amazon.com description: Product Description: This major four volume collection presents the most important classic and contemporary papers on corporate governance - an area that has attracted worldwide interest in the 1990s. Corporate governance consists of an interrelated set of mechanisms comprising institutional shareholders, boards of directors, managers remunerated according to performance, the market for corporate control, ownership structure, financial structure, relational investors and product market competition. Drawing on related disciplines such as finance, economics and management, this international and comparative collection reprints the most important published articles on the main elements of corporate governance in different countries. Corporate Governance will be an essential source of reference for students and researchers in economics, finance and management concerned with the role of the corporation in the modern economy.