Small Worlds of Corporate Governance (eBook)

Bruce Kogut (Herausgeber)

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2012
408 Seiten
The MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-30081-0 (ISBN)

Infos

An empirically rich study of the influence of social networks on corporate governance across countries and the emergence of a new transnational community.The financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision of credit when no one seems to have credit. This book maps the influence of these types of economic and social networks-communities of agents (people or firms) and the ties among them-on corporate behavior and governance. The empirically rich studies in the book are largely concerned with mechanisms for the emergence of governance networks rather than with what determines the best outcomes. The chapters identify "e;structural breaks"e;-privatization, for example, or globalization-and assess why powerful actors across countries behaved similarly or differently in terms of network properties and corporate governance.The chapters examine, among other topics, the surprisingly heterogeneous network structures that contradict the common belief in a single Anglo-Saxon model; the variation in network trajectories among the formerly communist countries including China; signs of convergence in response to the common structural breaks in Europe; the growing structural power of women due to gains in gender diversity on corporate governance in Scandinavia; the "e;small world"e; of merger and acquisition activity in Germany and the United States; the properties of a global and transnational governance network; and application of agent-based models to understanding the emergence of governance.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2012
• Co-Autor: Juan Pablo von Bernath Bardina, Christofer Edling, Shmuel Ellis, Fabrizio Ferraro, Doug Guthrie, Malika Hamadi, Eelke M. Heemskerk, Bersant Hobdari, Bruce Kogut, Sergio G. Lazzarini, Ilya Okhmatovskiy, Mariano Belinky, Trond Randoy, Gerhard Schnyder, Roger Schoenman, Andrew Shipilov, Jordan Siegel, Anna Stafsudd, Steen Thomsen, Pietro Urso, Nathalie Del Vecchio, Gordon Walker, Jon Brookfield, Zhixing Xiao, Sea-Jin Chang, Jordi Colomer, Martin Conyon, Raffaele Corrado, Gerald F. Davis, Israel Drori
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• ISBN-10: 0-262-30081-8 / 0262300818
• ISBN-13: 978-0-262-30081-0 / 9780262300810