Corporate governance, competition, and political parties explaining corporate governance change in Europe

Significant changes in corporate governance in continental Europe have been increasingly evident in the last decade. This book argues that firms in some of these countries have eschewed the traditional stakeholder-orientation for a strategy based on the maximization of shareholder value, despite a p...

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Main Author: Barker, Roger M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2010, 2010
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Significant changes in corporate governance in continental Europe have been increasingly evident in the last decade. This book argues that firms in some of these countries have eschewed the traditional stakeholder-orientation for a strategy based on the maximization of shareholder value, despite a period of social democratic politics
Physical Description:xx, 327 p. ill
ISBN:9780191722509