Contents

pp v-vii

List of Figures, Boxes and Tables

pp viii-ix

Acknowledgments

pp x-x

Preface

pp xi-xii

Notes on Contributors

pp xiii-xiv

Part I - Introduction and overview

pp 1-2

1 - Strategies, markets and governance

pp 3-32

Part II - Firm-level

pp 33-34

2 - Competitive advantage and the regulation of dominant firms

pp 35-51

3 - Delegating regulation: Supply-chain management, partnering and competition policy reforms

pp 52-68

4 - Diffusion of corporate governance regulation: France, Germany, the UK and the USA

pp 69-87

5 - Corporate governance after Enron et al.

pp 88-103

6 - Tackling healthcare fraud!?

pp 104-114

7 - Watchdog and proxy war campaigns against firms

pp 115-133

8 - Oil and conflict: Lundin Petroleum's experience in Sudan

pp 134-148

Part III - Industry-level

pp 149-150

9 - How the clean air interstate rule will affect investment and management decisions in the US electricity sector

pp 151-165

10 - EU water infrastructure management: National regulations, EU framework directives but no model to follow

pp 166-190

11 - Market-testing healthcare: Managed care, market evolution and the search for regulatory principles

pp 191-207

12 - On governing natural resources

pp 208-224

Part IV - Country/International level

pp 225-226

13 - Governing oil supply: Fiscal regimes, NOCs and the steering of resource-based economies

pp 227-258

14 - China – External imperatives and internal reforms

pp 259-276

15 - EU constitutional governance: Failure as opportunity!?

pp 277-300

16 - One competition standard to regulate global trade and protection?

pp 301-318

Part V - An observation in closing

pp 319-320

17 - Addressing the market paradox

pp 321-328

Index

pp 329-345