Corporate Governance and Globalization : Long Range Planning Issues

An understanding of systems of corporate governance, notably in the USA, Japan and the EU. It discusses how governance influences corporate cultures and strategies, particularly in response to the effects of deepening integration in the world economy. These effects present challenges for governments, obliging them to focus increasingly on problems of the management of structural and foreign trade policies. Challenges in international financial markets also have to be confronted by policy-makers as industries are funded more and more through cross-border investments, which reflect the responses of systems of corporate governance to globalization.