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Does Law Matter?: The Separation Of Ownership And Control In The United Kingdom

Cheffins, Brian - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2000

The corporate world today subdivides into rival systems of dispersed and concentrated ownership, with different … tentatively unless there is a legal environment which is hospitable to dispersed share ownership. This paper provides evidence on … orientation and the focus is on the emergence of a separation of ownership and control, characterised by widely dispersed share …

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Meanings of ownership of the firm

Learmount, Simon; Roberts, John - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2002

The notion of 'ownership of the firm' is central to conventional treatments of corporate governance, yet there is very … the notion of ownership in various disciplinary fields, and then recount and discuss some of the meanings associated with … ownership of the firm that we have found in two empirical studies carried out in the UK and Japan. Our aim is to illuminate and …

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The book publishing industry in Japan and the UK: corporate philosohpy/objectives, behaviour and market structure

Miyamato, Dai; Whittaker, Hugh - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2005

A number of prominent publishers in the UK and US have become parts of globalized media groups. In Japan, by contrast, they have neither been absorbed into media groups nor become globalized businesses. Based on interviews of major players in the Japanese publishing industry as well as annual...

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Are Good Managers Required for a Separation of Ownership and Control?

Cheffins, Brian R - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2003

is delegated to a cohort of full?time executives, there needs to be “good” managers. In Britain, however, ownership … explain how ownership structures were reconfigured when doubts existed about managerial quality. …

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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

formation and revision of the code, and thus feel a sense of ownership; the existence of interested and relevant monitors; and …

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

Schnyder, Gerhard - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2008

This paper tests the accuracy of Roe's (2003) claim that 'social democracies' tend to have insider-orientated corporate governance systems, for two extreme cases concerning Roe's independent variable: Switzerland and Sweden. Starting from a position in which both were clearly insider-orientated...

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