Tritt man einen Schritt von dem Bild zurück, das ich zu zeichnen versucht habe,um nicht mehr das Detail, sondern das Ganze betrachten zu können, dann stelltsich die Frage, ob sich diese vielen Einzelheiten zu einem Gesamtbildzusammenfügen, und ob ein Plan erkennbar wird, der dann in den...

Der folgende Aufsatz ist eine geringfügig überarbeitete Version eines Vortrags über das japanischeGesellschaftsrecht anlässlich der im August 2010 veranstalteten Summer School für japanischesRecht an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main1. Der Vortrag war nicht nur an Juristen...

While previous empirical literature has examined the effect of founder-CEOs on firm performance, it has largely ignored the effect of firm performance on founder-CEO status.(...)

I provide empirical evidence that badly governed firms respond more to aggregate shocks than do well governed firms.(...)

This paper uses firm-level data on 162 large Hungarian enterprises to analyse the relationship betweenownership structure and corporate performance in 1998 and 1999. Cross-sectional regressions are runfor each of these years using the return on assets (ROA) as the measure of performance. Both...

The paper presents early results of the survey of 84 Polish privatised industrial companies, sampled from a list of the 500 biggest firms. Three aspects of corporate governance were analysed: ownership structure, management of the companies, and supervision structures. An attempt was made to...

This paper discusses whether, in which respects, and to what extent the corporate governancesystems of Germany, the United Kingdom and France have already converged in the course ofEuropean economic integration, or are likely to converge in the foreseeable future. Wepresent, and attempt to...

This paper presents some consequences of economic theory for the regulation of corporate accounting and disclosure under Geman accounting legislation (de lege lata) and in an international context. The following implications are discussed: (i) It is argued that the economic income conception...

In a series of recent papers, Mark Roe and Lucian Bebchuk have developed further the concept of path dependence, combined it with concepts of evolution and used it to challenge the wide-spread view that the corporate governance systems of the major advanced economies are likely to converge...