01789nam 2200409Ia 450 99638594530331620200824132018.0(CKB)4940000000078607(EEBO)2248579577(OCoLC)ocm12711390e(OCoLC)12711390(EXLCZ)99494000000007860719851023d1668 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|Markham's masterpiece[electronic resource] containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses ... being divided into two books, the first containing all cures physical, the second all belonging to chirurgery ... /written by Gervas Markham, GentNow the tenth newly imprinted,corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters and above forty new medicines that are most certain and approved and heretofore never published ...[London] Printed at London by Edward Okes, and are to be sold by Thomas Passenger ...1668[13], 591, [23] p. illSecond part has special t.p.Contains illustrated frontispiece.Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.eebo-0167HorsesDiseasesEarly works to 1800HorsesAnatomyEarly works to 1800LivestockDiseasesEarly works to 1800HorsesDiseasesHorsesAnatomyLivestockDiseasesMarkham Gervase1568?-1637.877321EAHEAHWaOLNBOOK996385945303316Markham's masterpiece2305057UNISA04599nam 2200553Ia 450 991095426900332120251116153252.097801915735690191573566(MiAaPQ)EBC7033785(CKB)24235078700041(MiAaPQ)EBC472196(Au-PeEL)EBL472196(CaPaEBR)ebr10358549(CaONFJC)MIL238367(OCoLC)536239348(Au-PeEL)EBL7033785(OCoLC)781263321(EXLCZ)992423507870004120090903d2010 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCorporate governance, competition, and political parties explaining corporate governance change in Europe /Roger M. Barker1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press2010xx, 327 p. illIncludes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Political Partisanship and the Puzzle of Corporate Governance Change in Europe -- 1.1 Why corporate governance matters? -- 1.2 Recent developments in European corporate governance -- 1.3 Corporate governance and partisanship -- 1.4 Plan of the book -- 1.5 Chapter Appendix -- 2. A Theory of Partisanship and Corporate Governance Change -- 2.1 Change in corporate governance outcomes - between blockholder and shareholder models -- 2.2 The nature of economic rents -- 2.3 Corporate governance and economic rents -- 2.4 The argument: interaction of partisanship and product market competition -- 3. Alternative Explanations of Corporate Governance: A Critique of the Literature -- 3.1 Economic approaches to corporate governance -- 3.2 Legal approaches to corporate governance -- 3.3 Political approaches to corporate governance -- 3.4 Sociological approaches to corporate governance -- 3.5 Corporate governance and nondomestic factors -- 4. Measuring Change in Corporate Governance -- 4.1 Measures of de facto corporate governance behavior -- 4.2 Measures of corporate governance regulation -- 5. The Measurement of Product Market Competition -- 5.1 Real price levels -- 5.2 Concentration indices -- 5.3 Profit margins -- 5.4 Openness to trade -- 5.5 Survey measures of competition -- 5.6 OECD indices of product market competition -- 6. A Panel Data Analysis of Corporate Governance Change -- 6.1 The variables -- 6.2 Methodology -- 6.3 Findings -- 7. Robustness and Dynamic Modeling -- 7.1 Tests of robustness -- 7.2 Dynamic modeling of corporate governance -- 8. Qualitative Analysis: Introduction to the Case Studies -- 8.1 Rationale for the case studies -- 8.2 Choice of country cases.9. The Case of Germany: From Blockholding to Hybrid Corporate Governance Regime -- 9.1 The corporate governance of Deutschland AG -- 9.2 Economic rents and German corporate strategy -- 9.3 The politics of corporate governance in Germany -- 9.4 Explaining corporate governance change in Germany -- 10. The Case of Italy: Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same -- 10.1 The nature of postwar corporate governance in Italy -- 10.2 Reform of Italian corporate governance? -- 10.3 EMU and the empowerment of the technocrats -- 10.4 Corporate governance reform: partisan politics or elite project? -- 10.5 Conclusion: economic rents and Italian corporate governance -- 11. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.Over the last decade, significant changes in corporate governance in Continental Europe have been increasingly evident. This book argues that firms in some of these countries have eschewed the traditional stakeholder-orientation for a strategy based on the maximization of shareholder value, despite a period of social democratic politics in Europe.CompetitionEuropeCorporate governanceEuropeOrganizational changeEuropeStockholdersEuropeCompetitionCorporate governanceOrganizational changeStockholders658.4Barker Roger M304453MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910954269003321Corporate governance, competition, and political parties4465265UNINA