Corporate Governance in France and the UK
Long-Term Perspectives on Contemporary Institutional Arrangements
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8418650 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Morag Maclean (0000-0001-9030-7492, Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author), Mairi Maclean |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 88-116 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Business History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6791 • E-ISSN: 1743-7938 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00076799900000203 |
| OpenAlex | W2014141483 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 4 |
The Cadbury Report on the financial aspects of corporate governance, published in the UK in 1992, was landmark in thinking on governance, leading to the publication in Francen in 1995 of the Viénot Report, which boldly urged the removal of the cross-shareholdings which have formed the bedrock of French capitalism for three decades. This article considers the impact of this new emphasis on corporate governance on patterns of governance in Britain and France, examining matters of ownership and control, board membership and business elites, business cultures and decision-making, and responsibilities to shareholders. It questions whether the new focus on corporate governance has brought closer together the ways in which businesses are managed in Britain and France, towards a European model, or whether indeed France is gradually embracing the Anglo-Saxon model, and finds that such convergence as has occurred since the Second World War shows as yet no sign of leading to uniformity. Finally, the article suggests that the contemporary corporate governance debate offers a framework through which the past may be revisited and, potentially, reassessed, business historians being well placed to shed light on the competing natures as well as the competing forms of corporate governance in the world today
Capitalism · Corporate governance · Economics · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Shareholder · Accounting · Corporate Finance and Governance · Law
Business Elites and Corporate Governance in France and the UK
“Corporate governance regulations”
Corporate Leadership and Mass Atrocity
Debating the Restructuring of French Capitalism and Anglo-Saxon Institutional Investors
Corporate Governance and Control
The affective extension of ‘family’ in the context of changing elite business networks
The business elite in Finland
The concept of social fields and the productive models
The Bank of England and the ‘prehistory’ of corporate governance
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2025 (27) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |