Ralf Boscheck is the Lundin Family Professor of Economics and Business Policy at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland. Christine Batruch is Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, Lundin Petroleum. Stewart Hamilton is Professor of Accounting and Finance at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland. Jean-Pierre Lehmann is Professor of International Political Economy at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland. Caryl Pfeiffer is Director, Corporate Fuels and By-Products, E.ON U.S. Ulrich Steger holds the Alcan Chair of Environmental Management at IMD and is Director of IMD's research project on Corporate Sustainability Management, CSM.

• List of figures, boxes and tables; Acknowledgments; Preface; Notes on contributors; Section A. Introduction and Overview: 1. Strategies, markets and governance Ralf Boscheck; Section B. Firm-Level: 2. Competitive advantage and the regulation of dominant firms Ralf Boscheck; 3. Delegating regulation - supply-chain management, partnering and competition policy reforms Ralf Boscheck; 4. Diffusion of corporate governance regulation – France, Germany, the UK and the USA Ulrich Steger; 5. Corporate governance after ENRON et al Stewart Hamilton; 6. Trackling healthcare fraud!? Ralf Boscheck; 7. Watchdog and proxy war campaigns against firms Michael Yaziji; 8. Oil and conflict: Lundin Petroleum's experience in Sudan Christine Batruch; Section C. Industry-Level: 9. How the clean air interstate rule will affect investment and management decisions in the US electricity sector Caryl Pfeiffer; 10. EU water infrastructure management – national regulations, EU framework directives but no model to follow Ralf Boscheck; 11. Market-testing healthcare – managed care, market evolution and the search for regulatory principles Ralf Boscheck; 12. On governing natural resources Ralf Boscheck; Section D. Country/International Level: 13. Governing oil supply – fiscal regimes, NOCs and the steering of resource-based economies Ralf Boscheck; 14. China – external imperatives and internal reforms Jean-Pierre Lehmann; 15. EU constitutional governance – failure as opportunity!? Ralf Boscheck; 16. One competition standard to regulate global trade and protection Ralf Boscheck; Section E. An Observation in Closing: 17. Addressing the market paradox Ralf Boscheck.