Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan

by Pepper D. Culpepper

Book Overview

Does democracy control business, or does business control democracy? This study of how companies are bought and sold in four countries - France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands - explores this fundamental question. It does so by examining variation in the rules of corporate control - specifically, whether hostile takeovers are allowed. Takeovers have high political stakes: they result in corporate reorganizations, layoffs and the unraveling of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521134137
• ISBN13: 9780521134132
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"