CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: AN INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK Alexander N. Kostyuk Carsten Gerner-Beuerle Rodolfo Apreda Meiyo Ryoushin Kouki Honor Conscience Nobility Честь Совесть Доброе имя VIRTUS INTERPRESS 3
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LIST OF EDITORS Kostyuk, Alexander Gerner-Beuerle, Carsten Apreda, Rodolfo alex_kostyuk@virtusinterpress.org London School of Economics, UK c.gerner-beuerle@lse.ac.uk Universidad del CEMA, Argentina ra@cema.edu.ar LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Ahmad, Ayoib Che Ariza, Lázaro Rodríguez Barrese, James Bell, Stephen Bolton, Brian Canil, Jean M. Carta, Silvia Chouchene, Ibtissem Cox, Raymond A. K. Farina, Vincenzo Freidank, Carl-Christian College of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia lazaro@ugr.es St. John s University, New York barresej@stjohns.edu Park University School of Business and Management sbell@park.edu Whittemore School of Business & Economics brian.bolton@unh.edu University of Adelaide, South Australia University of Cagliari Higher Institute of Management Sousse, Tunisia ibtissemchouchane@yahoo.fr University of Ontario Institute of Technology University of Rome Tor Vergata freidank@mba.uni-hamburg.de 5
Georgakakis, Dimitrios G. Gkliatis, Ioannis P. Gonçalves, Carlos Alberto Gstraunthaler, Thomas Koufopoulos, Dimitrios N. Linares, Eva Argente López Pérez, María Victoría Martins, Henrique Cordeiro Melis, Andrea Mortimer, Tom Mustapha, Mazlina Pardini, Daniel Jardim Paskelian, Ohannes George Rosser, Bruce A. Schwizer, Paola Scordis, Nicos dimgeorgakakis@gnosisconsultants.com Ioannis.Gkliatis@brunel.ac.uk FUMEC UFMG - University e-mail: Carlos@face.ufmg.br University of Cape Town, South Africa Dimitrios.koufopoulos@brunel.ac.uk evargente@ugr.es mvlopez@ugr.es FUMEC University Henrique.martins@fumec.br University of Cagliari Anglia Law School, Poland Universiti Putra Malaysia mazlina05@gmail.com FUMEC University pardini@fumec.br College of Business FACIS Department paskeliano@uhd.edu University of Adelaide, South Australia University of Parma and SDA Bocconi St. John s University New York 6
Stefanelli, Valeria Turrent, Guadalupe del Carmen Briano Velte, Patrick Weber, Stefan C. Zambelli, Simona Telematic University of Rome Niccolò Cusano. Universidad de San Luís Potosí, Mexico gbriano@correo.ugr.es patrick.velte@uni-hamburg.de st.weber@mba.uni-hamburg.de University of Bologna, Italy simona.zambelli@unibo.it LIST OF ASSISTANTS Brychko, Maryna Galych, Iurii Gyrba, Oksana Iefymenko, Valeriia Khomutenko, Yaroslav Mozghovyi, Yaroslav m.m.brychko@gmail.com jury-galych@president.org.ua oksana_gyrba@gmail.com iefymenko@gmail.com yarik.kh@gmail.com mozghovyi@gmail.com 7