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Artificial intelligence is transforming the global economy, but behind its rise is a broader corporate governance failure. Over decades, shifts from accountability to founder authority in technology firms enabled a small elite to capture unprecedented control over the digital economy and AI. This development has profound implications for global power, regulation, and democratic resilience. Corporate Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence traces this trajectory in four parts. It begins by examining the historical foundations of corporate governance and how the technification of governance allowed tech founders to dominate digital markets. It then analyses three competing governance models: US-based founder control; the emergence of 'missionary' nonprofit governance at organizations like OpenAI and Anthropic; and China's state-centric governance, which enforces extreme accountability to political authority through direct state capture of tech firms. Moving beyond critique, this book advances practical solutions. It argues that avoiding AI oligarchy and safeguarding digital sovereignty require rebalancing authority and accountability, dismantling concentrated power, and establishing international governance akin to a “CERN for AI.” With an interdisciplinary lens on law, political economy, and geopolitics, it challenges leading narratives and offers policymakers, academics, and practitioners a framework for rethinking AI governance at a systemic level.

Provides the perfect balance between depth, succinctness, and accessibility, demystifying complex areas of law.Company Law gives a clear and authoritative account of the law, including key principles and valuable coverage of corporate governance and theory, as well as current debates surrounding these areas.Key Features - Condenses an extremely complex subject and focuses on core principles helping students to understand the subject without compromising on academic integrity - Includes analysis of corporate theory, offering students a broader contextual understanding of the evolving law - Includes a strong pedagogical structure with: chapter introductions - enabling students to orientate themselves within the various aspects of company law; further reading - providing avenues for further study; and self-test questions - reinforcing learning, supporting revision, and assisting with examination recall - Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support New to this Edition - Expanded coverage of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors in Chapters 13 and 14, ClientEarth v Shell plc [2023]- Covers the UK Corporate Governance Code 2024 (effective from 2025) and Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regulation 2024 (SI 2024/105) - Discussion of trading misfeasance in BHS litigation Wright v Chappell [2024]- Includes new legislation: Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022, Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023, Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 - Includes new cases: Stanford International Bank Ltd v HSBC Bank plc [2022], BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA [2022], Byers v Saudi National Bank [2023], Re UKCloud Ltd (in liquidation) [2024], Tianrui (International) Holding Company Ltd v China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd [2024], Syspal Capital Ltd v Truman [2025], Rukhadze v Recovery Partners GP Ltd [2025]Digital formats and resources The 13th edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats: the e-book and Law Trove offer a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support. For more information about e-books, please visit www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks .

The process of economic globalization, as product and capital markets have become increasingly integrated since WWII, has placed huge, and it is argued by some, irresistible pressures on the world's 'insider' stakeholder oriented corporate governance systems. Insider corporate governance systems in countries such as Germany, so the argument goes, should converge or be transformed by global product and capital market pressures to the 'superior' shareholder oriented 'outsider' corporate governance model prevalent in the UK and the US. What these pressures from globalization are, how they manifest themselves, whether they are likely to cause such a convergence/transformation and whether these pressures will continue, lie at the heart of the exploration in this volume. The Globalization of Corporate Governance provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the key corporate governance systems in the UK, the US and Germany from the perspective of the development of economic globalization. As such it is a valuable resource for those interested in how economic and legal reforms interact to produce change within corporate governance systems.

Post-crisis Trajectories of European Corporate Governance offers a critical reassessment of policy and institutional elements of corporate governance as it relates to the member states of the European Union. Presents a critical overview of contemporary corporate governance practices in the EUReassesses current European corporate governance policiesQuestions whether there should be a unified corporate governance trajectory in the EUIf such a trajectory exists, must it be completely reoriented or would a simple upgrade of current arrangements sufficeFeatures contributions from a variety of experts on corporate governance

The process of economic globalization, as product and capital markets have become increasingly integrated since WWII, has placed huge, and it is argued by some, irresistible pressures on the world's 'insider' stakeholder oriented corporate governance systems. Insider corporate governance systems in countries such as Germany, so the argument goes, should converge or be transformed by global product and capital market pressures to the 'superior' shareholder oriented 'outsider' corporate governance model prevalent in the UK and the US. What these pressures from globalization are, how they manifest themselves, whether they are likely to cause such a convergence/transformation and whether these pressures will continue, lie at the heart of the exploration in this volume. The Globalization of Corporate Governance provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the key corporate governance systems in the UK, the US and Germany from the perspective of the development of economic globalization. As such it is a valuable resource for those interested in how economic and legal reforms interact to produce change within corporate governance systems.

The process of economic globalization, as product and capital markets have become increasingly integrated since WWII, has placed huge, and it is argued by some, irresistible pressures on the world''s ''insider'' stakeholder oriented corporate governance systems. Insider corporate governance systems in countries such as Germany, so the argument goes, should converge or be transformed by global product and capital market pressures to the ''superior'' shareholder oriented ''outsider'' corporate governance model prevalent in the UK and the US. What these pressures from globalization are, how they manifest themselves, whether they are likely to cause such a convergence/transformation and whether these pressures will continue, lie at the heart of the exploration in this volume. The Globalization of Corporate Governance provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the key corporate governance systems in the UK, the US and Germany from the perspective of the development of economic globalization. As such it is a valuable resource for those interested in how economic and legal reforms interact to produce change within corporate governance systems.