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9780198293460

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

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    9780198293460

  • ISBN10:

    0198293461

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-07-13
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

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 lastcentury.

Author Biography

Mary A. O'Sullivan is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD, France.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
xii
List of Tables
xiii
Introduction 1(10)
Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Governance
11(30)
Transforming the Debates on Corporate Governance
41(29)
The Foundations of Managerial Control in the United States
70(35)
The Post-war Evolution of Managerial Control in the United States
105(41)
Challenges to Post-war Managerial Control in the United States
146(40)
US Corporate Responses to New Challenges
186(46)
From Managerial to Contested Control in Germany
232(27)
The Emerging Challenges to Organizational Control in Germany
259(30)
Conclusion 289(10)
References 299(24)
Index 323

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