Corporate Governance in Action

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Lars Engwall, Jaan Grünberg, Josef Pallas, Kerstin Sahlin, Linda Wedlin, Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Helena Buhr, Katarina Buhr, Magnus Frostenson, Ingemund Hägg, Laurence Romani, Lars Strannegård and Karolina Windell

Introduction

Our aim with this volume is to provide a deeper understanding of the governance of modern corporations and the role of modern corporations in governance. To this end, we formulated the research question as follows:

What are the significant characteristics of modern corporate governance?

To answer this question, we argued from the outset in Chapter 1 that there is a need to develop and complement existing models of corporate governance by focusing on three groups of actors: regulators, market actors and scrutinizers. ...