This chapter surveys the theoretical and empirical research on the main mechanisms of corporate law and governance, discusses the main legal and regulatory institutions in different countries, and examines the comparative governance literature. Corporate governance is concerned with the reconciliation of conflicts of interest between various corporate claimholders and the resolution of collecti...

There are substantial disparities across the southern Indian and northern (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh) states in terms of fundamental economic phenomena, such as per capita net state domestic product, rural and urban poverty rates, and investment flows, with the southern states taking a lead over their northern counterparts. In this paper, we make an attempt to understan...

The problems posed by coal mining in East Kalimantan have an environmental impact and imbalance of economic growth with social development. In practice, mine management that does not meet the principles good management, such as corrupt practices, uncontrolled permits, indicates need for a particular study related to policies regulations Province. Therefore, this paper is intended analyze aspect...

Network industries lie at the heart of economy and society. They provide key infrastructures and technologies, and have deserved indeed special missions of general interest. Therefore, they used to be organized as publicly owned monopolistic entities, thus subject to administrative law and regulation. Nowadays, these industries are undergoing major economic transformations. From one side, they ...

Network industries lie at the heart of economy and society. They provide key infrastructures and technologies, and have deserved indeed special missions of general interest. Therefore, they used to be organized as publicly owned monopolistic entities, thus subject to administrative law and regulation. Nowadays, these industries are undergoing major economic transformations. From one side, they ...

A large literature suggests that countries with better governance have higher growth rates. We explore whether this is also true at the sub-national level in Indonesia. We exploit a new dataset of firm perceptions of the quality of economic governance in 243 districts across Indonesia to estimate the impact of nine different dimensions of governance on district growth. Surprisingly, we find rel...

The effectiveness of community organizations depends on the existence of pillars of good governance like, participation, accountability, transparency, predictability and rule of law. Effective participation of members in their organizations ensures the vigilance, which is essential to create sense of responsibility among the board and the personnel. This paper therefore, aims at assessing the g...

This study presents evidence about relations between national culture and social institutions. We operationalize culture with data on cultural dimensions for over 50 nations adopted from cross-cultural psychology and generate testable hypotheses about three basic social norms of governance: the rule of law, corruption, and accountability. These norms correlate systematically and strongly with n...

At present, I am carrying out a study of the European patent system from an administrative law/governance and comparative law perspective. Even though in the US, several patent scholars have been doing research on applying administrative law principles to the US patent system (notably Arti K. Rai, John F. Duffy, Craig Allen Nard and Kali N. Murray), in Europe the lack of attention to administra...