Ebook: Corporate Governance: Normen, Legitimation und Praktiken in deutschen Unternehmen, 1870–1930

This book provides an insight into how corporate governance functioned in German companies in the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. Taking a microeconomic perspective, it examines the impact that legal norms had on the organizational structure of and financial decisions made by companies. Special attention is paid to four corporations: Deutsche Bank, BHG, AEG, and Siemens.