The Swiss Federal Parliament has adopted in 1991 a new Stock Corporation Law, which is generally considered to constitute a big step towards more minority shareholder protection (MSP) and more transparency of Swiss companies. We argue that, even though the changes might seem limited in...

Switzerland was for a very long time characterised by a strong tradition of self-regulation by private actors in the economic sphere rather than by an extensive and detailed legal framework. This is particularly true in the field of corporate governance and more precisely visible in the Stock...

In this paper, we trace the evolution of the Swiss company network during the 20th century. Based on interlock data for a sample of the 110 largest Swiss companies for seven assorted points in the century (1910, 1929, 1937, 1957, 1980, 1990 and 2000), we show that a (relatively) closely-meshed...