German Corporate Governance in International and European Context

Corporate governance encompasses the free enterprise system, which is treated comprehensively in this book from a German perspective. This distinguishes the book from other books written in English in this subject area, not only because of the comprehensive way it covers German corporate law and cor...

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Main Authors: du Plessis, Jean J. (Author), Großfeld, Bernhard (Author), Luttermann, Claus (Author), Saenger, Ingo (Author), Sandrock, Otto (Author), Casper, Matthias (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edition:2nd ed. 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • An Overview of German Business or Enterprise Law and the One-Tier and Two-Tier Board Systems Contrasted
  • An Overview of the Corporate Governance Debate in Germany
  • The General Meeting and the Management Board as Company Organs
  • The Supervisory Board as Company Organ
  • The German System of Supervisory Codetermination by Employees
  • The Impact of European Development on German Codetermination and German Corporate Law
  • Accounting as the Documentary Proof of Good Corporate Governance
  • Banking on Trust: The German Financial Sector, Global Capital Markets and Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Corporate Governance and Corporate Compliance
  • Corporate Governance in the EU, the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and Corporate Governance in Selected Other Jurisdictions
  • European and German Provisions in English for Purposes of Chapter 7.