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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 … dominance over the political arena by centre-right parties; in Sweden, no change took place despite the fact that centre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005813009
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010614653
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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 …-shareholder reforms were made possible by centre-right not centre-left support; In Sweden and the Netherlands pro-shareholder reforms were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005549416
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858394
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005813006
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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'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005813008
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005813012
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Regulating organizations through codes of corporate governance
Seidl, David - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2006
Although codes of corporate governance have come to be widely used as a mode of regulating corporations, our understanding of how they function is still rather limited. In this paper we describe the design of such code regimes and propose a theoretical framework for studying their effects. On...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005813026
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Anglo-American corporate governance and the employment relationship: a case to answer?
Deakin, Simon; Hobbs, Richard; Konzelmann, Sue; … - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2005
conditions where management can convince shareholders of the long-term gains from this approach, and where other regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162820
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How do family ties, boards and regulation affect pay at the top? Evidence for Indian CEOs
Fagernäs, Sonja - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2006
This paper investigates the effects of corporate governance factors and family ties on the pay of managing directors in a sample of Indian stock listed companies. It uses a unique seven-year firm level panel dataset and controls for firm performance and both CEO and firm specific fixed effects....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162824