TY - CHAP AB - True to form, it is no surprise that ‘public interest entity’ (which, by EC requirement, must include all listed companies but other entities only at the discretion of individual member states) has been defined in the United Kingdom in the minimal permissible way – it excludes large privately held companies, mutuals, large professional partnerships and so on – about all of which the public has a real interest – as the current financial crisis has clearly shown. Think, for instance, of the need to widen choice in the audit market. VL - 3 SN - 978-1-78052-737-6, 978-1-78052-736-9/2043-0523 DO - 10.1108/S2043-0523(2012)0000003006 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2043-0523(2012)0000003006 AU - Chambers Andrew ED - Güler Aras ED - David Crowther PY - 2012 Y1 - 2012/01/01 TI - Chapter 2 The Global Financial Crisis: A Failure of Corporate Governance? T2 - Business Strategy and Sustainability T3 - Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 23 EP - 44 Y2 - 2024/09/24 ER -