We survey two generations of research on corporate governance systems around the world,
concentrating on countries other than the US The first generation of international corporate …

G ertler MS Rules of the game: the place of institutions in regional economic change,
Regional Studies. Institutions exert a pervasive influence on the evolution and character of …

Within the German corporate governance system, employee representation on the
supervisory board is typically legally mandated. We propose that such representation of …

If the social relations and inherited configuration of production were at the core of economic
geography a decade ago, these aspects of the world are increasingly taken for granted. The …

What happens when the unstoppable force of liberalization collides with the immovable
object of national financial institutions in the advanced industrial democracies? To answer …

Das Pfadabhängigkeitstheorem hat sich zu einem wichtigen Erklärungskonzept der
sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung entwickelt. Jürgen Beyer führt die theoretische Debatte …

This paper argues that firm finance is something of a 'black-box'in economic geography, a
largely take-for-granted aspect of production. Focusing on small firms, the paper argues that …

Since World War II, a general conception about German corporate governance has
gradually emerged. This consensus view, founded largely on scant and unrepresentative …

Why do some companies stay out of stock markets? How crucial are stock markets for
competition between financial centres? How can local information help investors outperform …

The beginning of the twenty-first century has brought with it an extraordinary set of stimuli for
company law reform in the EU. A series of well-publicised recent scandals on both sides of …