Entrepreneurship, Finance, Governance and Ethics

1. Overview
Robert Cressy, Douglas Cumming, Chris Mallin

2. The Value of Country-Level Perceived Ethics to Entrepreneurs Around the World
April Knill

3. Do Private Equity-Backed Buyouts Respond Better to Financial Distress than PLCs?
Robert Cressy, Hisham Farag

4. Philanthropic Venture Capitalists’ Post-Investment Involvement with Portfolio Social Enterprises: What Do They Actually Do?
Mariarosa Scarlata, Luisa Alemany

5. Law and Corruption in Venture Capital and Private Equity
Douglas Cumming, Grant Fleming, Sofia Johan, Dorra Najar

6. The Development of the UK Alternative Investment Market: Its Growth and Governance Challenges
Chris Mallin, Kean Ow-Yong

7. Controlling Shareholders’ Fiduciary Duties Owed to Minority Shareholders – A Comparative Approach: The United States and France
Celine Gainet

8. Harmonized Regulatory Standards, International Distribution of Investment Funds and the Recent Financial Crisis
Douglas Cumming, Gael Imad’Eddine, Armin Schwienbacher

9. Active Management of Socially Responsible Portfolios
Annalisa Fabretti, Stefano Herzel

10. A Socially Responsible Portfolio Selection Strategy
Stefano Herzel, Marco Nicolosi

11. Corporate Social Responsibility Boundaries
Celine Gainet

12. Voluntary and Mandatory Skin in the Game: Understanding Outside Directors’ Stock Holdings
Sanjai Bhagat, Heather Tookes

13. The Causes and Financial Consequences of Corporate Frauds
Stefano Bonini, Diana Boraschi-Diaz

14. Corporate Governance and Business Strategies for Climate Change and Environmental Mitigation
Raj Aggarwal, Sandra Dow

15. The Role of Mutual Funds in Deterring Corporate Fraud in China
Wenxuan Hou, Edward Lee, Konstantinos Stathopoulos

16. Institutional Shareholders and Executive Compensation: An Ethical View
Shujun Ding, Chunxin Jia, Yuanshun Li, Zhenyu Wu

17. Management Buyouts and Board Transformation in China’s Transition Economy
Mike Wright, Yao Li, Louise Scholes

18. Multiple Large Shareholders and Joint Expropriation with Dividend Payments
Huaili Lv, Wanli Li

Keywords: Economics/Management Science, Public Finance & Economics, Ethics, Financial Law/Fiscal Law, Entrepreneurship