Mark J. Joe
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199205301
- eISBN:
- 9780191695612
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199205301.003.0022
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Corporate Governance and Accountability, Business History
This chapter examines political change in continental Europe. The recent demand for more pro-shareholder corporate governance in continental Europe and for legal structures that facilitate ownership ...
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This chapter examines political change in continental Europe. The recent demand for more pro-shareholder corporate governance in continental Europe and for legal structures that facilitate ownership separation follows European politics' move rightward, away from its late 20th-century history of strong social democratic politics. Politics, product markets, efforts to improve corporate law's institutions, and new capital-raising methods are all moving simultaneously.Less
This chapter examines political change in continental Europe. The recent demand for more pro-shareholder corporate governance in continental Europe and for legal structures that facilitate ownership separation follows European politics' move rightward, away from its late 20th-century history of strong social democratic politics. Politics, product markets, efforts to improve corporate law's institutions, and new capital-raising methods are all moving simultaneously.
