*** VIVIANE DE BEAUFORT: Gouvernance d'entreprise en Europe. Editions Economica (49 rue Héricart, F-75015 Paris). 2006, 692 pp, €55. ISBN 2-7178-5133-X.
"Trying to collect and summarise in a logical order as much information as possible about corporate governance, how it works on a daily basis and during takeovers is a mammoth task", rightly explains Viviane de Beaufort in the author's comments opening this impressive work, with a preface by Pascal Lamy, Director General of the WTO. The...