Machine generated contents note: Part I. The Discipline of Governance: 1. Definitions and the landscape; 2. Inward-facing governance; 3. Outward-facing governance; Part II. Governance and Law: 4. The protection of the laws; 5. Critical governance law; Part III. Governance and the Listed Company: 6. The shareholders response - the governance codes; 7. Contextual issues; 8. Developments and trends; Part IV. Governance and Regulation: 9. The overlap between governance and regulation; 10. Micro and macro regulation of companies and markets; 11. Failure - the abiding characteristic of regulation; Part V. Governance and Managerial Administration: 12. Performance and reward issues; 13. Assets; 14. Company failure; Part VI. Public Sector Governance: 15. The wide picture of public sector governance; 16. Public sector governance in practice; Part VII. Counter-Governance: 17. Criminality; 18. Stakeholder abuse; 19. Market abuse.