Part I: Corporate Ownership Structure and Corporate Governance -- Part II: Issues in Executive Compensation -- Part III: Boards of Directors: Roles, duties, and Responsibilities -- Part IV: New Trends in Corporate Governance: Towards a More Effective and Sustainable Governance

Conventional wisdom recommends the superiority of private ownership of enterprises. The reality confronts it with a rich diversity in ownership and governance structures. This volume examines five types of unorthodox ownership and governance form emerging in the industrial sector across major...

Einführung -- Corporate-Governance-Systeme -- Corporate Governance als Gegenstand theoretischer Erklärungsansätze -- Interne Corporate-Governance-Mechanismen als Lösungsansätze — eine Analyse theoretischer und empirischer Forschungsergebnisse -- Entwicklung einer Typologie der Corporate...

Corporate Governance and Finance Law is designed to educate students, researchers, and practitioners on the legal aspects of corporate financial markets within the United States, the Eurozone, and China

Human resource (HR) governance is a relatively new construct that has recently begun attracting more and more attention in both research and practice. As a part of corporate governance, it represents the internal and external normative framework of human resource management and its supervision...

This book takes a holistic approach to explore how business is being conducted in China and India, and to analyze the factors that influence business decisions in present times. In doing so the book seeks to develop a fuller understanding of the present ‘context’ within the two Asian...

The book examines the market reaction to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) announcements over a period from 2003 to 2015. Mergers and acquisitions continue to be amongst the preferred competitive options available to the companies seeking to grow fast in the rapidly changing global business...

Eine gemeinsame Wertebasis stellt in transnationalen Unternehmen eine wichtige Ressource zur Steuerung der internen Zusammenarbeit dar. Annika Elsner erläutert konkrete Wirkungspotenziale von Werten und ihre Bedeutung als Schlüsselfaktor in der transnationalen Unternehmensführung. Die Autorin...