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This collection provides exceptional descriptive and analytical insights into changes in corporate governance settings in ten Eastern and Western European countries. It demonstrates that there exist different varieties of capitalisms and paths to transformation of economic institutions. In addition, it offers detailed discussions about national cases as well as the overall European Union effects. This book should be of great interest to scholars and students of comparative national systems, corporate governance and European studies.
List of contents
Corporate Governance from a Comparative Perspective: Bridging East and West; M.Federowicz Are Italy and Spain Mediterranean Sisters? A Comparison of Corporate Governance Systems; R.Aguilera Ukraine: The Newly Built State and Economic Institutions; V.Sidenko & O.Kuziakiv Bulgaria: The rise of Capitalism and Actors' Rationality; D.Minev& M.Jeliazkova The Czech Republic: The Case of Delayed Transformation; M.Havrda Poland: Worker Driven Transformation to Capitalism?; M.Federowicz Ownership and Corporate Governance in the Hungarian Large Enterprise Sector; É.Voszka Revisiting the French Model Coordination and Restructuring in French Industry (in the 1980s and 1990s); B.Hancké The Specificity of Corporate Governance in Small States: Instituionalization and Questioning of Ownership Restriction in Switzerland and Sweden; T.David & A.Mach European Integration and Corporate Governance in Central Europe: Trajectories of Institutional Change; H.Grabbe
About the author
THOMAS DAVID Lecturer in Economic and Social History, Universities of Lausanne and Neuchatel, Switzerland
HEATHER GRABBE Research Director, Centre for European Reform, London
BOB HANCKÉ Lecturer in European Political Economy, London School of Economics, UK
MAREK HAVRDA Managing Director of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, Prague
MARIA JELIAZKOVA Research Associate, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
OKSANA KUZIAKIV Research Associate, Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consultation, Kyiv, Ukraine
ANDRE MACH Lecturer in Comparative Political Economy, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
DOUHOMIR MINEV Senior Research Associate in Sociology and Economics, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
VOLODYMYR SIDENKO Director of Economic Programmes, Ukrainian Centre for Economic and Political Studies, Ukraine
EVA VOSZKA Senior Researcher, Financial Research Ltd, Budapest
Summary
This collection provides exceptional descriptive and analytical insights into changes in corporate governance settings in ten Eastern and Western European countries. It demonstrates that there exist different varieties of capitalisms and paths to transformation of economic institutions. In addition, it offers detailed discussions about national cases as well as the overall European Union effects. This book should be of great interest to scholars and students of comparative national systems, corporate governance and European studies.
