The prevailing overall concepts in two major areas of corporate governance research are incompatible: Research on the country level (comparative corporate governance) stresses potential relationships among governance components, whereas the vast majority of company level research ignores the...

This article investigates the performance of various measures of shareholder influence. Performance is evaluated on the basis of the measures' ability to explain the representation of the two largest shareholders in the boards of German stock corporations. This yardstick for the shareholders'...

Das Federal Reserve System intervenierte erfolgreich während des Aktienkurssturzes 1987. Welche Schlüsse lassen sich daraus für die Systemschutzfunktion moderner Zentralbanken ziehen? Diese Arbeit analysiert im ersten Schwerpunkt reale Kursstürze aus Zentralbanksicht. Besonders das Margining...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Family constitutions in family-owned firms are becoming increasingly popular around the world. While some, though not much, research examining this trend has come from a management research perspective, legal...