Germany's Corporate Governance Reforms : Has the System Become Flexible Enough? /

This article reviews Germany's corporate governance system and the effectiveness of recent reforms. Since the early 1990s far-reaching reforms have complemented the traditional stakeholder system with important elements of the shareholder system. Instead of taking a view on the superiority of e...

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מחבר ראשי: Odenius, Jurgen
פורמט: כתב-עת
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
סדרה:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/179
גישה מקוונת:Full text available on IMF
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