Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cogitations on corporate governance : when it began, how it began, and where is it now / Pratip Kar -- Evolution and challenges in the companies act, 2013 / Rajesh Chakrabarti and Mandar Kagade -- Current status of corporate governance in India / Shveta Singh, Surendra S. Yadav, and P.K. Jain -- The comply-or-explain approach for enforcing governance norms / Subrata Sarkar -- The one woman director mandate : history and trajectory / Afra Afsharipour -- Enabling laws, greater liabilities, higher enforcements : moving towards a more ethical business world in India? / Kaushik Dutta and Prasanna Mohanty -- The legal structure of corporate social responsibility in India / Jaivir Singh -- Law, regulatory transformations, and institutional change : the cas of corporate social responsibility in India / Shuchi Bharti -- Corporate governance norms in state-owned enterprises : are we using apples to assess oranges? / Manju Jaiswall -- The emerging role of independent directors in the boardroom / Garima Dadhich -- Executive compensation in India : an empirical investigation / Bala N. Balasubramanian, Samir K. Barua, and D. Karthik -- Evolution of law pertaining to related-party transactions in India / Sandeep Parekh -- Audit in corporate governance / Asish K. Bhattacharyya -- Integrity of the financial reporting process : demystifying the role of audit committees / Naveen Kumar Srivastava and Kaushik Dutta.