TY - BOOK ID - 49572956 TI - Historical perspectives on corporate governance : reflections on ownership, patricipation and different modes of organizing AU - Fellman, Susanna AU - Kuusterä, Antti AU - Vaara, Eero PY - 2008 VL - 72 SN - 0355256X SN - 9789516533653 9516533655 PB - Helsinki : Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, DB - UniCat KW - Corporate governance KW - Industrial management UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:49572956 AB - Corporate governance has been a hot topic, in both research and practice during the past two decades. We have seen a proliferation of research taking different perspectives on governance issues. In-depth historical studies of the evolution of governance systems and practices can provide new insight into our understanding of the key questions of today. In particular, business history helps to shed more light on the great variety and complexity of governance systems that are often overlooked in managerialist analyses. This volume provides an important contribution to the historical study of corporate governance. This collection includes a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives that can be used in historical analysis of corporate governance. The chapters focus on specific historical phenomena and particular periods of time, thus providing a rich overview of the problems and challenges of corporate governance. Characteristic to all articles is a comparative approach that helps to put specific findings into historical perspective. The book offers important insights into key topics in the governance literature such as the relationship between ownership and management, the problems and challenges of family business, and the separation of management and ownership. Other articles also address interesting but often neglected topics, for example governance problems in co-operatives and questions around labour management and worker participation. This volume shows that by widening the perspective and taking a historical approach, business and economic historians have much to offer to the corporate governance literature. The contributors in this volume are all distinguished scholars, within the field of business history. They include both senior scholars as well as younger researchers with a special interest in these topics. ER -