Many companies in Germany must provide information beyond financial figures in their annual reports. For some years now, legislators have increasingly required information on non-financial aspects, such as the shares of women in leadership positions. Using a quantitative text analysis of annual...

This paper analyzes the determinants of the German corporate governance rating recently developed by Drobetz, Schillhofer, and Zimmermann (2004). We find a non- linear relationship between ownership concentration and the quality of firmlevel corporate governance as measured by the rating. Firms...

Von Unternehmen – insbesondere (großen) Aktiengesellschaften – wird vielfach gefordert, sie sollten ihrer Rolle als „Good Corporate Citizen“ gerecht werden und einen Beitrag zum Gemeinwohl leisten. Wenn sie dieser Forderung durch Unternehmensspenden nachkommen, bewegen sie sich...

For the last two decades, board diversity is increasingly considered as a significant mechanism of good corporate governance. Thus, the question arises whether a heterogeneously or rather a homogenously composed board contributes to the efficiency of a company's management and monitoring....