Contests for Corporate Control
Corporate Governance and Economic Performance in the United States and Germany
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 June 2001
- ISBN 9780199244867
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages346 pages
- Size 234x157x20 mm
- Weight 504 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tables and figures 0
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Short description:
A challenging and informed examination of the links between the general business environment and the operations, decisions, and organization of firms. O'Sullivan explores the links between the two 'hot' issues, corporate governance and innovation.
MoreLong description:
During the 1990s, corporate governance became a hot issue in all of the advanced economies. For decades, major business corporations had reinvested earnings and developed long-term relations with their labour forces as they expanded the scale and scope of their operations. As a result, these corporations had made themselves central to resource allocation and economic performance in the national economies in which they had evolved. Then, beginning in the 1980s and picking up momentum in the 1990s, came the contests for corporate control. Previously silent stockholders, now empowered by institutional investors, demanded that corporations be run to 'maximize shareholder value'. In the United States many, if not most, top corporate executives have now embraced this ideology.
In this highly original book, Mary O'Sullivan provides a critical analysis of the theoretical foundations for the shareholder value principle of corporate governance and for the alternative perspective that corporations should be run in the interests of 'stakeholders'. She embeds her arguments on the relation between corporate governance and economic performance in historical accounts of the dynamics of corporate growth in the United States and Germany over the course of the twentieth century. O'Sullivan explains the emergence and consequences of 'maximizing shareholder value' as a principle of corporate governance in the United States over the past two decades, and provides unique insights into the contests for corporate control that have unfolded in Germany over the past few years.
This book, based on detailed historical research in both countries, represents a powerful challenge to current orthodoxy. It also has the great merit of focusing attention on questions that really matter. . . . [Mary O'Sullivan's] answers should give admirers of American capitalism pause for thought.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Governance
Chapter 2: Transforming the Debates on Corporate Governance
Chapter 3: The Foundations of Managerial Control in the United States
Chapter 4: The Post-War Evolution of Managerial Control in the United States
Chapter 5: Challenges to Post-War Managerial Control in the US
Chapter 6: US Corporate Responses to New Challenges
Chapter 7: From Managerial to Contested Control in Germany
Chapter 8: The Emerging Challenges to Organizational Control in Germany
Conclusion
