Contests for Corporate Control: Corporate Governance and Economic Performance in the United States and Germany

ISBN-13: 9780199244867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str.

Mary O'Sullivan

Opis

The author analyzes two approaches to running corporations: maximizing shareholder value or acting to serve stakeholders. She bases her arguments on the link between corporate governance and economic performance in accounts of corporate growth in the US and Germany over the last century.

Recenzje

Mary O'Sullivan's fine work brings Corporate Governance into the main stream of business scholarship. Through a combination of exquisite scholarship and independent analysis, she has created an indispensable starting point for all those interested in these subjects. It is the best single source on the subject.

O autorze

Mary A. O'Sullivan is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD, France. She received her undergraduate degree in 1988 from University College Dublin and then worked at McKinsey and Company, Inc. in London. She subsequently received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University. O'Sullivan has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Tokyo and she is a Research Associate at both the STEP Group in Oslo and the Levy Institute in New York. She is currently co-directing a project funded by the European Commission on 'Corporate Governance, Innovation, and Economic Performance'.