Contests for Corporate Control: Corporate Governance and Economic Performance in the United States and Germany

by Mary O'Sullivan

Overview

The author analyzes two approaches to running corporations: maximizing shareholder value or acting to serve stakeholders. She bases her arguments on the link between corporate governance and economic performance in accounts of corporate growth in the US and Germany over the last century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199244867
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/30/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

INSEAD, France

Table of Contents

List of FiguresList of TablesIntroduction1. Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Governance2. Transforming the Debates on Corporate Governance3. The Foundations of Managerial Control in the United States4. The Post-war Evolution of Managerial Control in the United States5. Challenges to Post-war Managerial Control in the United States6. US Corporate Responses to New Challenges7. From Managerial to Contested Control in Germany8. The Emerging Challenges to Organizational Control in GermanyConclusionReferencesIndex