CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 欧洲公司治理英文版 2009 Thomas Clarke and Jean-Francois Chanlat
CONTENTS
List of fi gures  viii
List of tables  x
Acknowledgements   xiii
List of contributors  xv
Introduction: A New World Disorder? The Recurring Crises in Anglo-American Corporate
Governance and the Increasing Impact on European Economies and Institutions
Thomas Clarke and Jean-Francois Chanlat  1
Appendix Transatlantic contagion: US and European bank failures  36
PART 1 DIMENSIONS OF GOVERNANCE  43
Introduction  45
‘Governance’ as a Bridge Between Disciplines: Cross-disciplinary Inspiration Regarding
1 “
Shifts in Governance and Problems of Governability, Accountability and Legitimacy”
Kees van Kersbergen and Frans van Waarden  48
2 “Corporate Governance, Values, Management, and Standards: A European Perspective”
Joseph Wieland  65
Appendix European corporate governance codes  74
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PART 2 VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM: LATIN, GERMANIC, AND ANGLO-AMERICAN SYSTEMS
Introduction  79
3 “Corporate Governance in Italy”
Andrea Melis  83
4 “Remaking Italian Capitalism? The Politics of Corporate Governance Reform”
Richard Deeg  92
5 “A Transformation in the French Model of Shareholding and Management”
Francois Morin  110
6 “How Far Does the United Kingdom Have a Market-based System of Corporate
Governance? A Review and Evaluation of Recent Developments in the United Kingdom”
Andrew Pendleton  123
PART 3 CONVERGENCE OR DIVERSITY OF GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS?  139
Introduction  141
7 “The Emerging European Corporate Governance Model: Anglo-Saxon, Continental, or
Still the Century of Diversity?”
Lucian Cernat  144
8 “Changes in Corporate Governance of German Corporations: Convergence to the
Anglo-American Model?”
Christel Lane  157
9 “Convergence or Divergence? The Outlines of an Answer”
Michel Aglietta and Antoine Rebérioux  174
10 A Transatlantic Financial Market?
Karel Lannoo  183
11 International Accounting Harmonisation: The Resistible Rise of the IASC/IASB
Bernard Colasse  189
PART 4 THE REFORM AND TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPEAN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
INSTITUTIONS  199
Introduction  201
12 “Does the European Company Prevent the ‘Delaware Effect’?”
Joseph A. McCahery and Erik P.M. Vermeulen  204
13 “UK Corporate Governance: To What End a New Regulatory State?”
Alistair Howard  218
14 “Varieties of Institutional Investors and National Models of Capitalism: The Transformation of
Corporate Governance in France and Germany”
Michel Goyer  233
15 “Corporate Governance Reforms in Continental Europe”
Luca Enriques and Paulo Volpin  253
PART 5 THE IMPACT OF SHAREHOLDER VALUE  271
Introduction  273
16 “The Arrival of Shareholder Value in the European Auto Industry:
A Case Study Comparison of Four Car Makers”
Ulrich Jürgens, Yannick Lung, Giuseppe Volpato and Vincent Frigant  276
17 “The Theory of the Firm and Shareholder Value”
Michel Aglietta and Antoine Rebérioux  293
18 “Negotiated Shareholder Value: The German Variant of an Anglo-American Practice”
Sigurt Vitols  303
19 “Globalisation, Shareholder Value, Restructuring: The (Non) Transformation of Siemens”
Alexander Borsch  318
PART 6 CEO POWER AND REWARD  335
Introduction  337
20 “Executive Compensation, Political Economy, and Managerial Control: The Transformation of
Managerial Incentive Structures and Ideology, 1950–2000”
Ernie Englander and Allen Kaufman  340
21 “From Shareholder Value to CEO Power: The Paradox of the 1990s”
Robert Boyer  360
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Appendix The remuneration of French CEOs in 2003
Index  394