Corporate Networks in Europe and the United States
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 October 2002
- ISBN 9780199256976
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 242x162x18 mm
- Weight 500 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tables and figures 0
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Short description:
Corporate networks form part of the institutional structure of markets and the business environment, enabling firms to coordinate their behaviour and regulate competition. This book evaluates comparative data on interlocking directorates and capital networks between the large corporations in six countries: Germany, the UK, France, the US, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. The book also presents an analysis of the elite network of the top managers in several countries.
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Corporate networks form part of the institutional structure of markets and the business environment, enabling firms to coordinate their behaviour and regulate competition. Networks perform a number of economic functions: they reduce information asymmetries and uncertainty, and facilitate the redistribution of risk between banks, firms, and investors. Within these networks, firms collectively monitor one another and owners supervise their managers.
Part One analyses comparative data on interlocking directorates and capital networks between the large corporations in six countries: Germany, Great Britain, France, the United States, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.
The structure of corporate networks is shaped by the traditions, culture, and institutions of a country. The German corporate network, for instance, is highly centralized and includes almost all large corporations. The network in the United States, however, is decentralized and falls into a number of regional centres.
Corporate networks may be considered as a configuration of firms that are connected to one another by managers (interlocks). Networks may also be considered as a configuration of managers who meet each other on the board of directors (network of the economic elite). The resources on which the dominance of the economic elite is based are bureaucratic power, property rights, and social capital. The top managers not only have a leading position within large corporations (bureaucratic power), they also represent the owner vis-à-vis the dependent firm on whose board they sit. Thus, bureaucratic control over a company is linked with property rights in the context of specific network configurations. These configurations vary between countries and lead to differing forms of managerial control in Germany, France, Britain, and the United States (Part Two of the book).
Part Three concentrates on corporate networks and the structure of the market order in the transitional economies. The type of capitalism that is evolving in these countries in some ways resembles Western managerial capitalism, but with certain significant differences. Privatization created a relatively high concentration of ownership. There is no clear-cut separation of ownership and control, but rather a balance of power between managers and owners.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Corporate Networks
The Structure of Corporate Networks
Network Structures in Germany and Britain
The Evolution of French Capitalism
Part II: Elite Networks
Elite Networks in Germany and Britain
Education and Career of Multiple Directors
Part III: Post-socialist Networks
Corporate Networks in Eastern Germany
Privatization and Corporate Networks in Eastern Europe
Part IV: Outlook
From Corporatism to Shareholder-Value
