The European Union is a key player in international economic relations, but its exact role
and how it goes about making decisions and negotiating is often poorly understood within …

This article explores links between the firm's financial structure, corporate governance, and
the management of labour. It reviews various literatures, in particular drawing from financial …

The German economy has been widely seen as failing to develop the commercial
innovation competencies necessary to compete in new technologies. Starting in the mid …

Contrasting systems of corporate governance persist internationally but are subject to
regulatory and firm-level institutional change. Such changes may be viewed as …

This paper examines the many changes which have transformed the German system of
corporate governance during the last seven odd years. It concludes that it is in the process of …

From its inception, the institutional tradition of studying organizations has been informed by
themes of control and coordination–themes that fall within the domain of corporate …

A crucial aspect of the industrialization process is the development of an autonomous
financial system: that is, a set of specialized organizations and institutions dealing with the …

The paper explores the influence of institutional frameworks on the evolution of the German
software and biotechnology sectors. It links institutional constraints to poor performance of …

Contemporary research on comparative corporate governance was initially preoccupied
with the question of differences in national systems of corporate governance. In recent years …

Abstract'Stakeholding'is a term laden with manymeanings. In this paper we attempt to put
someorder on the discourse by confining attentionto the corporation. We assess the …