Regulating Corporate Governance in the EU: Towards a Marketization of Corporate Control (International Political Economy Series)

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. In the context of the financial and economic crisis, corporate governance and regulatory supervision failures are at the centre of public debates. Who controls the modern corporation, and why, has become one of the defining social power relations in contemporary capitalism. Regulation Corporate Governance in the EU fills a gap in the extensive literature on corporate governance and highlights the political nature of EU corporate governance regulation. Laura Horn advances a critical political economy perspective focusing in particular on political struggles and processes of the neoliberal transformation of company law and corporate governance regulation. Her findings about the marketization of corporate control are at the core to a better understanding of the broader context of capitalist restructuring in the European Union Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-21 Theoretical Framework....Pages 22-47 Global Capitalist Restructuring and Corporate Governance Regulation in the European Political Economy....Pages 48-79 Company Law in the European Union – From Industrial to Shareholder Democracy?....Pages 80-103 Corporate Governance Regulation in the European Union – From Harmonization to Marketization....Pages 104-141 The Marketization of Corporate Control as a Political Project....Pages 142-167 Corporate Governance in Crisis?....Pages 168-178 Conclusion....Pages 179-183 Back Matter....Pages 184-226