DEBORAH DE LANGE Assistant Professor of Strategy and Business, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University, UK.

Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Foreward Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Corporate Governance Views and Theories Chapter 1: Who Holds the Power? Corporate Governance in America Chapter 2: A Review of Theories for the Modern Firm; Realistic Theoretical Choices; Embeddedness and Networks; Institutional Theory; Agency Theory Part II A Modern Networked Theory of the Firm Chapter 3: A Network Governance Model of the Firm Chapter 4: The Working Firm Chapter 5: The Legitimizing Firm Chapter 6: The Stock Market Bureaucracy Part III Case Study: The Financial Crisis in America Chapter 7: Power of the Middlemen Chapter 8: Cliques of Legitimizing Leaders Chapter 9: Democratization as an Institutionalized Myth Part IV Solutions: Sustainable Corporate Governance Chapter 10: A Superior Model - Sustainability Chapter 11: Examples of International Corporate Governance Chapter 12: Scenarios for a Redistribution of Power in America Part V Conclusions Chapter 13: Implications and Future Research for Management Scholars Chapter 14: Implications for Policy and Practice Appendices Bibliography Index