Comparative Corporate Governance: Essays and MaterialsKlaus J. Hopt, Eddy Wymeersch Corporate governance has become an important issue in all industrial economies. This text has grown out of a conference entitled Comparative Corporate Governance, An International Conference, United States - Japan - Western Europe which considered the subject. |
Contents
Institutional Investors as Corporate Monitors in the UK | 47 |
Holding Companies in Belgium | 67 |
The Corporate Goverance Debate in Belgium | 119 |
A Note on the Typology of Financial Systems | 151 |
Path Dependence Political Options and Governance Systems | 165 |
Trends in Japanese Corporate Governance | 185 |
A Comparison of Germany Japan and the US | 195 |
Materials | 211 |
The Code of Best Practice Greenbury Report London 1995 p 1218 | 41 |
II USA | 49 |
9 Corporate Governance Principles Atlantic Richfield Company ARCO Annual Report Los Angeles 1995 | 57 |
10 Statement of Governance Principles California Public Employee Retirement System CalPERS Sacramento 1996 | 63 |
11 Important Elements of Good Corporate Governance Teachers Insurance and Annuity AssociationCollege Retirement Equities Fund TIAACREF N... | 69 |
III Canada | 81 |
13 Guidelines for Improved Corporate Governance in Canada Report of the Toronto Stock Exchange Committee on Corporate Governance in Canad... | 85 |
IV France | 91 |
I United Kingdom | 1 |
2 Statement of Directors Responsibility for Preparing the Accounts Cadbury Report London 1992 | 11 |
3 Audit Committees Cadbury Report London 1992 | 15 |
Summary of Main Conclusions Report of the Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance London 1995 p 13 | 23 |
5 The Role and Duties of Directors A Statement of Best Practice Institutional Shareholders Committee London 1991 | 27 |
6 The Responsibilities of Institutional Shareholders in the UK Institutional Shareholders Committee London 1991 | 35 |
Marini Paris 1996 | 113 |
V Germany | 123 |
VI The Netherlands | 133 |
VII Belgium | 139 |
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abgelehnt accounts actionnaires administrateurs angenommen annual report appointment asset audit committee auditors Aufsichtsrat banks Belgian Best Practice board members board of directors Cadbury Report CalPERS capital Chairman Chief Executive Officer Cobepa Code of Best company law company's Compensation Committee compliance comptes conseil d'administration corporate finance corporate governance d'une decisions developed disclosure dividends doit droit economic employees equity être executive compensation financial systems firms function fund managers German holding companies important independent directors individual industrial institutional investors institutional shareholders interest internal intervention Investment Management issues Japan l'entreprise listed companies London Stock Exchange LORSCH majority Management Ltd monitoring non-executive directors options ownership paragraph path dependence pension funds performance Petrofina portfolio qu'il recommendations relationship remuneration committees responsibility role shares sociaux sociétés cotées stock corporations stock exchange listed structure subsidiary supervisory board supra note Table takeover TIAA-CREF Toronto Stock Exchange voting WYMEERSCH