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.