Introduction: corporate control: changing concepts and practices of the firm - Joseph McCahery, Sol Picciotto, and Colin Scott Part I: corporate theory beyond contract Public values, private business, and US corporate fiduciary law - William W. Bratton, Jr The many-headed hydra: networks as higher-order collective actors - Gunther teubner Labour markets, employment contracts, and corporate change - Katherine Stone Organizational regulation and the limits of contract - Hugh Collins Part II: corporate regulation: critiques of market failure and transaction cost theory Why regulated the modern corporation? The failure of "market failure" - David Campbell Corporate governance and transaction costs - Neil Kay Coercion and co-operation in the employment relationship: efficiency and power theories of the firm - Paul Marginson The prospects of pension fund socialism - William H. Simon Part III: changing concepts of accountability Auditing and the politics of control in the UK financial services sector - Michael Power Professional competition and the social construction of transnational regulatory expertise - Yves Dezalay Contracts, trusts, and companies - Caroline Bradley Privatization, control, and accountability - Colin Scott Risk, trust, and the market for corporate control - Joseph MacCahery Bankas and corporate control in Germany - Theodor Baums Part IV: corporate groups Corporate groups and network structure - John Scott The american law of corporate groups - Phillip I. Blumberg Regulating corporate groups: international perspective - Tom Hadden Some comments on the law relating to corporate groups - D. D. Prentice Transfer pricing and the antinomies of corporate regulation - Sol Picciotto