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Rhenish Capitalism - New Insights from a Business History Perspective (Hardcover)
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Rhenish Capitalism - New Insights from a Business History Perspective (Hardcover)
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Rhenish capitalism is an ideal-typical model of capitalism which is
characterised by a bank-centered financing system, close economic
ties between banks and companies, a balance of power between
shareholders and management, and a social partnership between
unions and employers. The West German economy of the 1950s to the
1980s is the prime example of that model of capitalism which
contrasts with the liberal Anglo-Saxon forms of capitalism. In
accordance with recent debates about Varieties of Capitalism, the
authors argue that research on capitalism should pay more attention
to change over time. The book also claims to put the firm into the
centre of analysis. The empirical contributions uncover the
differences between French and German corporate governance
practices comparing two European automobile producers (VW and
Renault), analyse legal debates and practices of corporate control
in post-war Germany, show the tension between national corporate
governance and increasing internationalisation by reference to four
major West German producers of chemicals, pharmaceuticals and
fibres; and explore the opportunities encountered by German big
banks vis-a-vis their customers from big industry. Furthermore,
they show that coordinating culture in the supply relationship of
the German automobile industry came under pressure at the end of
the boom and stress the importance of communication processes as a
basis for interest coordination in Rhenish capitalism. The chapters
in this book were originally published as a special issue of the
journal Business History.
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