In recent years, applied studies have shown widespread, profound and increasing heterogeneity across firms in terms of their strategy, organization arrangement and performance. This book investigates the diversity of business firms, offering a picture of the different organizational settings...

Auf Grundlage des Corporate-Management-Modells identifizieren die Autoren zehn Wertsteigerungshebel, die zusammen den normativen Rahmen, die Corporate Strategy und die internen Corporate-Governance-Mechanismen bilden. Mit zahlreichen Fallbeispielen.

The emergence of Russian corporations : from the Soviet enterprise to a market firm / Tatiana G. Dolgopyatova, Ichiro Iwasaki, and Andrei A. Yakovlev -- Stock ownership and corporate control / Tatiana G. Dolgopyatova -- Legal form of incorporation / Ichiro Iwasaki -- The structure of corporate...

Martin Ricketts, a leading scholar in this field, has selected the seminal papers from a variety of traditions that illustrate the evolution of thinking on 'the firm' over a considerable period of time. The firm as a vehicle for entrepreneurial initiative and the exercise of business judgement...