Strategy, Structure and Corporate Governance

Since the early 2000s, important changes in external environments have affected the corporate governance practices of firms around the world. The corporate governance structure in each country develops in response to country-specific factors and conditions. Firms are currently engaged in a variety of dynamic business relationships such as business networks, strategic alliances, and conglomerates especially in high tech sectors. This book proposes to analyze the main trends and drivers of change in corporate governance of several kinds of organizations: Large conglomerates; Inter-firms networks (districts, clusters etc.); and, 'Recent' forms of inter-firms networks (business ecosystems).