This book covers the relation between various groups of people that have a stake in a corporation, called stakeholders. Understanding this relation is important when defining the set of rules that ensure that the corporation is well governed, in short ‘Corporate Governance’.

The question “What is good Corporate Governance?” is more difficult to answer than the question “Can you give an example of bad Corporate Governance?” Some infamous cases are those of Enron, Worldcom, Parmal...