The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on director interlocks by illustrating and analysing the interlocking directorships among the Italian, French, German, UK and US listed Blue Chips. The comparison of the five countries considered shows that two national models stand...

Within the context of debates over national varieties of capitalism, this paper discusses the shareholder value orientation of the 40 largest listed German companies. Three dimensions of shareholder value are distinguished: the communicative dimension, the operative dimension and the dimension...

Arbeitgeber betonen gemeinhin die Freiwilligkeit von Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), gewerkschaftliche Forderungen zielen auf eine verpflichtende Berichterstattung sowie mehr Compliance hinsichtlich CSR. Vor diesem Hintergrund liegt es im Interesse der Arbeitnehmervertretungen, sich mit...