"Revolutions" can take place in surprising places. The past decade has seen nothing less than a revolution in the command centres of capitalism: corporate boardrooms. The ancien regime of club ties and long lunches has been swept aside, and replaced by a new order based on transparency and accountability. The new order has its roots in the work of sons-culottes such as Sir Adrian Cadbury in the 1990s. But it was given a powerful shove in 2001-02 by debacles at Enron and WorldCom, and the subsequent Sarbanes-Oxley legislation.
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机译：“革命”可能发生在令人惊讶的地方。在过去的十年中，无非是资本主义指挥中心的革命：公司董事会。俱乐部联系和长期午餐的旧制度已经被抛在一边，取而代之的是基于透明度和问责制的新秩序。新秩序源于1990年代艾德里安·卡德伯里爵士（Sir Adrian Cadbury）等子公司的工作。但是在2001-02年度，安然公司和WorldCom的惨败以及随后的萨班斯-奥克斯利法案对它进行了强有力的推动。
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