Corporate Governance in a Changing Economic and Political Environment: Trajectories of Institutional Change (Studies in Economic Transition)

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 Capitalism 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. The contributors to this collection discuss the development of corporate governance in ten European countries. The systematic cross-country comparison of West and East, North and South, and country-specific settings is its main focus. Chapters are based on empirically grounded country cases and explore the evolution of economic organization over time. Each of the case study chapters refer implicitly to Germany and UK models as their benchmarks for contradicting as well as evolving traits. The book demonstrates the lack of convergence towards a clear model of corporate governance in post-communist economies, and the variety of institutional developments in advanced economies. The introductory chapter discusses the concept of corporate governance in the context of varieties of contemporary capitalism, overtly addressing the changes in the post-communist institutional environment. The concluding chapter addresses the impact of the EU on corporate governance in the candidate countries. The volume offers both a new theoretical approach and recent country specific evidence uncovering a mixture of both convergent and path-dependant tendencies, as opposed to a 'linear' vision of economic development Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Boxes, Figures and Tables......Page 9 Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 11 Notes on the Contributors......Page 13 1 Introduction: Corporate Governance from a Comparative Perspective – Bridging East and West......Page 18 2 Are Italy and Spain Mediterranean Sisters? A Comparison of Corporate Governance Systems......Page 40 3 Ukraine: the Newly Built State and Economic Institutions......Page 88 4 Bulgaria: the Rise of Capitalism and Actors’ Rationality......Page 117 5 The Czech Republic: the Case of Delayed Transformation......Page 138 6 Poland: Worker-driven Transformation to Capitalism?......Page 161 7 Ownership and Corporate Governance in the Hungarian Large Enterprise Sector......Page 187 8 Revisiting the French Model: Coordination and Restructuring in French Industry (in the 1980s and 1990s)......Page 212 9 The Specificity of Corporate Governance in Small States: Institutionalization and Questioning of Ownership Restrictions in Switzerland and Sweden......Page 237 10 European Integration and Corporate Governance in Central Europe: Trajectories of Institutional Change......Page 264 Bibliography......Page 284 Index......Page 308 Annotation 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 capitalism 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 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.