This book deals with the widespread economic and financial crime issues of corruption, the shadow economy and money laundering. It investigates both the theoretical and practical aspects of these crimes, identifying their effects on economic, social and political life. This book presents these causes and effects with a state of the art review and with recent empirical research. It compares the international and transnational aspects of these economic and financial crimes through discussion and critical analysis. This volume will be of interest to researchers and policy makers working to study and prevent economic and financial crime, white collar crime, and organized crime.

This book deals with the widespread economic and financial crime issues of corruption, the shadow economy and money laundering. It investigates both the theoretical and practical aspects of these crimes, identifying their effects on economic, social and political life. This book presents these causes and effects with a state of the art review and with recent empirical research. It compares the international and transnational aspects of these economic and financial crimes through discussion and critical analysis. This volume will be of interest to researchers and policy makers working to study and prevent economic and financial crime, white collar crime, and organized crime.

In the new economy, new corporate governance, social and environmental standards are set, as well as non-financial issues that come to complete the global performance of the company reflected in the financial indicators. The results of our work bring more value to the knowledge stage in this field through the following qualitative aspects of the scientific research activity: a) It presents the reevaluation of the organizational theories which lead to an approach concept of the management and control system of the organization which is the corporate governance concept; b) The elaboration of a methodology able to measure the quality of corporate governance system, adapted to the Romanian space; c) The evaluation of the corporate governance system for Romanian companies; d)Identifying the four global performance dimensions available in the new economy which are: financial dimensions, corporate governance dimension, social dimension and environmental dimension; e)The evaluation of the global performances of the Romanian companies over the period 2001-2011.