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Zusatztext "?This provocative book applies law and finance theory to a wide range of issues bearing on corporate governance and business history. Brouwer's analysis should hold particular interest for students and scholars interested in comparative governance."Joseph A. McCaheryProfessor of Corporate Governance and InnovationUniversity of Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics Informationen zum Autor Maria Brouwer is Professor in Economics at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Klappentext Focuses on the relationships between rules of decision-making and economic development! concentrating on the similarities and differences between old and modern modes of governance in both business and politics. This book shows how maritime trade spawned many organizational innovations in the past that still feature modern innovative enterprise. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the relationships between rules of decision-making and economic development, concentrating on the similarities and differences between old and modern modes of governance in both business and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Prologue and Governance and Prosperity 2. Entrepreneurship and Economic Development 3. Organizations and Uncertainty: The Management of Perceptions – From Medieval Italy to Silicon Valley 4. Entrepreneurship and the State 5. Valuation and Authority in Failing Firms: US and European Bankruptcy Laws 6. Performance Pay and Uncertainty in Entrepreneurial and Bureaucratic Firms 7. Executive Pay and Tenure: Founding Fathers, Mercenaries and Revolutionaries 8. Decision Agents in Corporate and Political Democracies: Venice, Florence and the Low Countries 9. Democracy and Dictatorship: The Politics of Innovation 10. Waning and Emerging Empires 11. References
