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.

Autorentext

THOMAS DAVID Lecturer in Economic and Social History, Universities of Lausanne and Neuchatel, Switzerland HEATHER GRABBE Research Director, Centre for European Reform, London BOB HANCKÉ Lecturer in European Political Economy, London School of Economics, UK MAREK HAVRDA Managing Director of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, Prague MARIA JELIAZKOVA Research Associate, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences OKSANA KUZIAKIV Research Associate, Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consultation, Kyiv, Ukraine ANDRE MACH Lecturer in Comparative Political Economy, University of Lausanne, Switzerland DOUHOMIR MINEV Senior Research Associate in Sociology and Economics, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences VOLODYMYR SIDENKO Director of Economic Programmes, Ukrainian Centre for Economic and Political Studies, Ukraine EVA VOSZKA Senior Researcher, Financial Research Ltd, Budapest

Inhalt

Corporate Governance from a Comparative Perspective: Bridging East and West; M.Federowicz Are Italy and Spain Mediterranean Sisters? A Comparison of Corporate Governance Systems; R.Aguilera Ukraine: The Newly Built State and Economic Institutions; V.Sidenko & O.Kuziakiv Bulgaria: The rise of Capitalism and Actors' Rationality; D.Minev & M.Jeliazkova The Czech Republic: The Case of Delayed Transformation; M.Havrda Poland: Worker Driven Transformation to Capitalism?; M.Federowicz Ownership and Corporate Governance in the Hungarian Large Enterprise Sector; É.Voszka Revisiting the French Model Coordination and Restructuring in French Industry (in the 1980s and 1990s); B.Hancké The Specificity of Corporate Governance in Small States: Instituionalization and Questioning of Ownership Restriction in Switzerland and Sweden; T.David & A.Mach European Integration and Corporate Governance in Central Europe: Trajectories of Institutional Change; H.Grabbe