“…"Most scholarship on corporate governance in the last two decades has focused on the relationships between shareholders and managers or directors. Neglected in this vast literature is the role of employees in corporate governance. …”

“…The presented evidence shows that the wage share and the adjusted wage share start to diverge by the end of the 1980s, exactly at the time when the compensation practices of corporations changed considerably. Although shareholder value orientation has increased in Germany as well, business owners are still at the top of the income hierarchy. …”

“…Increasingly governance of corporations is viewed as accountable not just to shareholders but to multiple stakeholders, requiring an extension of the firm's fiduciary duties. …”

“…Lawmakers and/or regulators can introduce network governance by requiring bank shareholders to amend corporate constitutions to introduce a division of power with checks and balances from stakeholders who can take on the role of supplementary and/or co-regulators. …”

“…Leveraged buyouts tend to dampen acquired firm job growth as they pursue labour productivity gains. The shareholder value movement may contribute to short-termism among corporate managers, which can divert funds away from firm capital accumulation toward financial markets, crowd out productive investment and fuel unemployment. …”

“…In fact, 'financial engineering,' as it is called, has enabled corporations to escape taxation while allowing a new breed of chief executive to accumulate extravagant fortunes at the expense of shareholder and employee alike. The author does not just expose problems, however; he also explores solutions. …”

“…Quite paradoxically, the relaxation of shareholders' property rights and the limits imposed on managerial discretion as a result of the operation of employee representation seem necessary to achieve certain valuable forms of organizational flexibility in market economies."…”

“…Much of the trial evidence was seized by police from the public relations firm used by Schmidheiny and it shows a longstanding plan to protect the Swiss shareholder from bearing any responsibility, civil or criminal. …”

“…Lohnt sich nachhaltiges Wirtschaften für die Unternehmen, für die Shareholder und Geldanleger?"…”

“…International Politics: <br/>- New American bomber introduced <br/>- Schultz-Shevardnadze meeting <br/>- Honecker interview <br/>- Self-immolation cases in Uzbekistan <br/><br/>Domestic Affairs: <br/>- János Kádár meets with scientists and artists <br/>- Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP) Party meeting <br/>- Young Communist League (KISZ) Central Committee session <br/>- Mátyás Szűrös in Balassagyarmat <br/>- Fewer employment opportunities for recent graduates <br/>- Traveling meeting of sociological society <br/><br/>Economy: <br/>- Hungarian Trade Bank pays dividends to its shareholders <br/>- Factory directors: managing director of the Kőbánya Pharmaceutical Company Külpolitika: <br/>- Új amerikai bombázógép bemutatása <br/>- Schultz-Sevardnadze találkozó <br/>- Honecker interjú <br/>- Önégetések Üzbegisztánban Belpolitika <br/>- Kádár János tudósokkal és művészekkel találkozott <br/>- MSZMP pártértekezlet <br/>- KISZ KB ülés <br/>- Szűrös Mátyás Balassagyarmaton <br/>- Kevesebb álláslehetőség a friss diplomásoknak <br/>- Szociológiai társaság vándorgyűlése <br/><br/>Gazdaság: <br/>- Az MKB osztalékot fizet részvényeseinek <br/>- Ipargazdák: a Kőbányai Gyógyszeripari Vállalat vezérigazgatója…”

“…This trend is coupled with a relative decrease in traditional bank lending to non-financial companies and low levels of bond interest rates. Just as shareholders, bondholders can play an important role in corporate governance. …”

“…Others advocate workers control as an alternative to conventional capitalist organisations which are run for shareholders. There is thus both a moral and political argument for a measure of democracy at work, as well as a business case argument, which views voice as a potential link in the quest for increased organisational performance. …”

“…The four represent very different traditions of corporate governance - shareholder value is dominant in the UK, for example, while in the Netherlands companies are to be run in the long-term interest of all those involved. …”

“…The whole matter has been reviewed by my Directors in London this week and they have decided to make a grant of 200 guineas forthwith to your fund. We shall ask our Shareholders at the October, 1936, Quarterly Meeting to confirm this action. …”

“…Moreover, the representativeness of the people interviewed was questioned, as was the narrow view taken by the authors, which is mainly the perspective of the majority shareholder. In fact, the elaborated recommendations went far beyond the scope of the study (which was the evaluation of the SE Regulation, not the SE Directive), whereas no in-depth research on employee involvement was undertaken. …”

“…It begins in the sixties, with economists, consultants, business and policy leaders who began to shift the corporation from a provider of goods and services to one whose sole purpose was to maximize profit--an ideology that brought with it the risk-taking entrepreneur and the shareholder revolution and changed the very definition of a corporation. …”

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“…Die unangenehme Crux der Sache liegt darin, daß Europa zwar die Straussianische imperiale Politik dieser US-Administration ablehnt, aber selber im Prinzip die gleiche neoliberale Wirtschaftspolitik der freien Marktwirtschaft in der Tradition von Hayeks vertritt. [] Das Problem ist aber: das neoliberale System der freien Marktwirtschaft selber ist für den katastrophalen Zustand der realen Wirtschaft verantwortlich - in Deutschland ebenso wie weltweit. [] Bundesgeschäftsstelle - Postfach 22 1128 - 55050 Mainz - 06131- 23 73 84 [] Landesverbände: Niedersachsen: 0511- 86 83 27 - Bayern: 089-725 40 11 [] Hamburg: 0171-8384092 - Sachsen: 0351-4278140 - NRW: 0211-7337862 [] Berlin: 030-8023405 - Baden-Württemberg: 0711-6773726 [] eMail: infoebueso.de - www.bueso.de [] BüSo [] Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität [] Ein inzwischen erstickendes Gestrüpp von Gesetzen, Bestimmungen, Verordnungen und Auflagen hat dafür gesorgt, daß sich die Vorstellung davon, wodurch gesellschaftlicher Reichtum entsteht, gewandelt hat: Nicht mehr Investitionen in wissenschaftlichen und technologischen Fortschritt und ehrliche Arbeit bringen den gesellschaftlichen Reichtum, sondern angeblich die Spekulation an der Börse, Shareholder value, "Geld macht Geld", nicht mehr Investition in Exzellenz und Spitzenqualität, sondern in Billigproduktion und "just in time". …”