In the context of the financial and economic crisis, corporate governance and regulatory supervision failures, Laura Horn investigates one of the defining questions in social power relations in contemporary capitalism: who controls the modern corporation, and why.

Autorentext
LAURA HORN is Associate Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation at the University of Roskilde. Her publications include Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance: From Lisbon to Lisbon (co-edited with Bastiaan van Apeldoorn and Jan Drahokoupil).

Inhalt
Introduction Theoretical Framework Global Capitalist Restructuring and Corporate Governance Regulation in the European Political Economy Company Law in the European Union - From Industrial to Shareholder Democracy? Corporate Governance Regulation in the European Union - From Harmonisation to Marketisation The Marketisation of Corporate Control as a Political Project Corporate Governance in Crisis? Conclusion