Comparative Corporate Governance

ISBN-13: 9783110157659 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 224 str.

Hopt, Klaus J.

Opis

Corporate governance has become an important issue in all industrial economies. This text has grown out of a conference entitled Comparative Corporate Governance, An International Conference, United States - Japan - Western Europe which considered the subject.

Spis treści

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- The Contributors -- Part One: Essays -- The German Two-Tier Board (Aufsichtsrat) A German View on Corporate Governance -- The Cadbury Report, Two Years Later -- Institutional Investors as Corporate Monitors in the UK -- Holding Companies in Belgium -- The Corporate Governance Debate in Belgium -- A Note on the Typology of Financial Systems -- Path Dependence, Political Options, and Governance Systems -- Trends in Japanese Corporate Governance -- Corporate Governance and Corporate Performance: A Comparison of Germany, Japan and the U.S. -- Part Two: Materials -- I. United Kingdom -- II. USA -- III. Canada -- IV. France -- V. Germany -- VI. The Netherlands -- VII. Belgium

O autorze

Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Klaus J. Hopt ist Direktor des Max-Planck-Instituts für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg.