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Does Social Democracy Matter? Corporate Governance Reforms in Switzerland and Sweden (1980-2005)

Schnyder, Gerhard - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2008

governance systems, for two extreme cases concerning Roe's independent variable: Switzerland and Sweden. Starting from a position … Switzerland during the 1990s, but no comparable change in Sweden up until the early 2000s. These developments occurred against the … background of contrasting political contexts in the two countries: in Switzerland, change took place in a context of stable …

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Horse, Cow, Sheep, or 'Thing-In-Itself'? The Cognitive Origins of Corporate Governance in Switzerland, Germany, and the US, 1910s-1930s

Lüpold, M.; Schnyder, Gerhard - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2009

stakeholder-orientated model prevailing in continental Europe (exemplified by Switzerland and Germany) for most of the 20th …

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Varieties of Insider Corporate Governance: Centre-Right Preferences and the Determinants of Reform in the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland

Schnyder, G. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010

explanation of centre-right preferences. Based on the cases of the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland I show that the ownership …

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Revisiting the Party Paradox of Finance Capitalism: Evidence from Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands

Schnyder, Gerhard - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2008

governance reforms, while centre-right parties oppose such reforms. Based on case studies of Switzerland, Sweden, and the … Netherlands, I test the accuracy of this thesis and find that it does not apply to either of these cases: in Switzerland pro …

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Flexible or not? The Comply-or-Explain Principle in UK and German Corporate Governance

Sanderson, P.; Seidl, D.; Roberts, J.; Krieger, B. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010

The current financial crisis has given rise to calls to toughen considerably the codes of corporate governance put in place in many countries to regulate corporate behaviour (e.g. the UK Combined Code). These codes vary slightly in form but tend to contain a mix of non-discretionary regulations...

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Anglo-Saxon Capitalism in Crisis? Models of Liberal Capitalism and the Preconditions for Financial Stability

Konzelmann, S.; Fovargue-Davies, M. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2011

The return to economic liberalism in the Anglo-Saxon world was motivated by the apparent failure of Keynesian economic management to control the stagflation of the 1970s and early 1980s. In this context, the theories of economic liberalism, championed by Friederich von Hayek, Milton Friedman and...

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The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Executive Pay in the United Kingdom

Guest, Paul - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2007

We examine the impact of acquisitions on executive pay in UK acquirers over 1984-2001. For the overall sample, which includes foreign, domestic, public and private targets, there is a significant transitory pay increase. Pay changes are not affected by target nationality or organizational form,...

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Insolvency, Employment Protection and Corporate Restructuring: The effects of TUPE

Armour, J.; Deakin, S. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

The statutory protection currently provided by UK law to employees during transfers of undertakings and other restructurings has been criticised on the grounds that it undermines insolvency procedures and interferes with the 'rescue' process. We present an analysis which suggests that granting...

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The Reflexive Properties of Corporate Governance Codes: The Reception of the 'Comply or Explain' Approach in Slovenia

Cankar, Nina; Deakin, Simon; Simoneti, Marko - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2008

The Slovenian Corporate Governance Code for Public Joint-Stock Companies was adopted in March 2004. Using a systems-theoretical approach, we examine the extent to which the implementation of the Code has resulted in the kinds of 'reflexive' learning processes which the 'comply or explain'...

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Corporate Governance, The Limits of Rationality and Proceduralisation

J, Paterson - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

A striking feature of theorising about corporate governance, whether from the perspective of economics or in terms of a stakeholder model of the company, is that even quite basic questions posed at the outset remain to be answered. Thus, in the case of economic theorising about the firm, it has...

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