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Familienunternehmen gelten in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung als besonders innovativ und als Hidden Champions der … unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen. Einerseits wird Familienunternehmen ein besonderer Unternehmergeist bescheinigt, der sie besonders …
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A good corporate governance framework should combine transparency, accountability and integrity and this requires knowledge of beneficial ownership. The protection of minority investors and other stakeholder protection will be challenging without access to reliable information about the...
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There are two main sources of confusion in the public corporate governance debate. One is the confusion about the role of public policy intervention. The other is a lack of empirical knowledge about the corporate landscape where rules are supposed to be implemented and the functioning of...
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Investor confidence in financial markets depends in large part on the existence of an accurate disclosure regime that provides transparency in the beneficial ownership and control structures of publicly listed companies. This is particularly true for corporate governance systems that are...
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This article reviews Germany's corporate governance system and the effectiveness of recent reforms. Since the early 1990s far-reaching reforms have complemented the traditional stakeholder system with important elements of the shareholder system. Instead of taking a view on the superiority of...
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Corporate governance is a key element of todayâ€(tm)s economic reality being more and more present in many countries around the world. This paper has two main objectives. The first one is to offer more insight into the concept of corporate governance by a thorough literature review and by...
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<p>In the shareholder theory of firms, the company's assets are the property of the shareholders, and managers are … viewed as agents of the shareholders with all of the enforcement difficulties associated with agency relationships, but … shareholders in most companies. Obviously, Slovenian companies have changed their strategic behaviour to reflect the interests of …
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and their impact on shareholders' wealth during the period from 2001 to 2008. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 762 … focusing on open shareholder activists to investigating passive institutional shareholders. …
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Recent studies of the innovation process have viewed it as the outcome of organizational dynamics rather than as the product of technological developments exogenous to the governance of firms. We apply this approach to our examination of British coastal shipping companies during the early...
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Purpose – The paper aims to use a neoliberal ideology to frame an analysis of how the power of ideas can be used to maintain a failed corporate governance model based on stockholder primacy. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs the concept of corporate hegemony to provide an...
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