The embedded firm: corporate governance, labor, and finance capitalism

1. Introduction : corporate governance after the 'end of history' : investigating the new 'great transformation' / Cynthia A. Williams and Peer Zumbansen

Part I. Historical trajectories of business and regulation : 2. Corporate governance and financial crisis in the long run / Simon Deakin

3. Financialism : a (very) brief history / Lawrence E. Mitchell

4. Legitimating power : the changing status of the board of directors / Dalia Tsuk Mitchell

5. Engaging corporate boards : the limits of liability rules in modern corporate governance / William T. Allen

6. The primacy of Delaware and the embeddedness of the firm / Fenner Stewart, Jr.

7. The new embeddedness of the corporation : corporate social responsibility in the knowledge society / Peer Zumbansen

Part II. New interests, new shareholder constellations, new landscapes : 8. Beyond the Berle and Means paradigm : private equity and the new capitalist order / Stephen F. Diamond

9. Pension funds as owners and as financial intermediaries : a review of recent Canadian experience / Simon Archer

10. Credit derivatives market design : creating fairness and sustainability / Janis Sarra

11. The EU Takeovers Directive : a shareholder or stakeholder model? / Blanaid Clarke

12. 'Law and finance' : inaccurate, incomplete, and important / Ruth V. Aguilera and Cynthia A. Williams

Part III. Labor's evolution in the new economy

13. Labor and finance in the United States / Sanford M. Jacoby

14. The conflicting logic of markets and the management of production / Suzanne Konzelmann and Frank Wilkinson

15. Organizing workers globally : the need for public policy to regulate investment / John Evans

16. From governance to political economy : insights from a study of relations between corporations and workers / Harry W. Arthurs and Claire Mummé

Part IV. The transnational embedded firm and the financial crisis

17. The intellectual foundations of the global financial crisis : analysis and proposals for reform / Frank Jan De Graaf and Cynthia A. Williams

18. Why executive pay matters to innovation and inequality / William Lazonick

19. Products, perimeters and politics : systemic risk and securities regulation / Mary Condon

20. Modernizing pension fund legal standards for the twenty-first century / Keith L. Johnson and Frank Jan De Graaf

Part V. Conclusion :

21. Conclusion : evaluation, policy proposals and research agenda Cynthia A. Williams and Peer Zumbansen.