Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hackethal, Andreas
• Schmidt, Reinhard H.
• Tyrell, Marcel

Titel

Banks and German Corporate Governance: on the way to a capital market-based system?

Ist Teil von

• Corporate governance : an international review, 2005-05, Vol.13 (3), p.397-407

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The German corporate governance system has long been cited as the standard example of an insider‐controlled and stakeholder‐oriented system. We argue that despite important reforms and substantial changes of individual elements of the German corporate governance system, the main characteristics of the traditional German system as a whole are still in place. However, in our opinion the changing role of big universal banks in governance undermines the stability of the corporate governance system in Germany. Therefore a breakdown of the traditional system leading to a control vacuum or a fundamental change to a capital market‐based system could be in the offing.