Entrepreneurship, Finance, Governance and Ethics

1 Overview; Robert Cressy, Douglas Cumming and Christine Mallin. - Part I: Entrepreneurship, Venture Finance and Ethics. - 2 The Value of Country-level Perceived Ethics to Entrepreneurs around the World; April Knill. - 3 Do private equity firms respond better to financial distress than PLCs? ; Robert Cressy and Hisham Farag. - 4 Deal Structuring in Philanthropic Venture Capital Investments. - Luisa Alemany and Mariarosa Scarlata. - 5 Law and Corruption in Venture Capital and Private Equity; Douglas Cumming, Grant Fleming, Sofia Johan and Dorra Najar. - Part II. The Impact of Regulation and Financial Structure on Ethics and Governance. - 6 The Development of the UK Alternative Investment Market : Its Growth and Governance Challenges; Chris Mallin and Kean Ow-Yong. - 7 Controlling Shareholders Fiduciary Duties Owed to Minority Shareholders A Comparative Approach: the United States and France; Celine Gainet. - 8 Harmonized Regulatory Standards, International Distribution of Investment Funds and the Recent Financial Crisis; Douglas Cumming, Gael Imad Eddine and Armin Schwienbacher. - 9 Active Management of Socially Responsible Portfolios; Annalisa Fabretti and Stefano Herzel. - 10 A Socially Responsible Portfolio Selection Strategy; Stefano Herzel and Marco Nicolosi. - Part III. Ethics, Fraud and Managerial Decisions. - 11 Corporate Social Responsibility Boundaries; Celine Gainet. - 12 Voluntary and Mandatory Skin in the Game: Understanding Outside Directors Stock Holdings; Sanjai Bhagat and Heather Tookes. - 13 The causes and financial consequences of corporate frauds; Stefano Bonini and Diana Boraschi-Diaz. - 14 Corporate Governance and Corporate Strategies for Climate Control and Environmental Mitigation; Raj Aggawral and Sandra Dow. - Part IV. Ethics and Governance in China. - 15 The role of Mutual Funds in Deterring Corporate Fraud in China; Wenxuan Hou Edward Lee and Konstantinos Stathopoulous. - 16 Institutional Shareholders and Executive Compensation: AnEthical View; Shujun Ding, Chunxin Jia, Yianshun Li and Zhenyu Wu. - 17 Chinese Management Buyouts and Board Transformation; Mike Wright, Yao Li and Louise Scholes. - 18 Multiple Large Shareholders and Joint Expropriation with Dividend Payments; Huaili Lv and Wanli Li. - Index.