"Companies successful over the long term create and nurture an environment for success. They foster a culture, leadership process and infrastructure that enable and support effective strategy implementation driving toward achieving business objectives and related growth, profit and return goals....

Das stets gewinnorientierte Handeln der Konzerne ("Shareholder-Value"-Denken) wird (mit Schwerpunkt USA) in Geschichte und Gegenwart dargestellt sowie Möglichkeiten eines Umdenkens aufgezeigt. (Jürgen Plieninger)

The concept in this title, presented as a narrative, contends that the corporation is created by law to function like a psychopathic personality whose destructive behaviour, if unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin.

This study examines how globalization of corporate governance practices influence the risk of European CEOs being dismissed. We argue that the harsh monitoring of the American corporate governance system spills over to the rest of the world as a result of this globalization. We focus on direct...