Download or read book The German Corporate Governance Code Structure Aims and an Assessment of Its Implementation in DAX MDAX Companies written by André Euschen and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, University Witten/Herdecke, language: English, abstract: In the early days, the academic research in the field of corporate governance (hereafter: CG) developed largely in silos, depending on the areas of interest of the respective researchers. Since the last decade however, researchers pay more attention to the formation of a holistic approach that focusses on the effectiveness and efficiency of CG as a whole. From a practitioner's view, CG methods are essential in order to improve sustainable economic growth, economic efficiency and the trust of national and international investors. Due to the takeover wave during the 1980s, the advancing deregulation and globalisation of the capital markets as well as the Asian financial crisis in the end of the 1990s, CG has gained a greater profile. This was reinforced by several corporate scandals in the U.S. (e.g. Enron) but also in Europe in the early 2000s. Because of this, voices for a higher necessity of responsible management and CG have arisen. For Germany in particular, the Holzmann scandal during the turn of the millennium compelled the German legislator to step up its monitoring on CG of listed companies. As a consequence, the German Corporate Governance Code was established by its eponymous government commission in 2002. The objective of the establishment was not only to strengthen the confidence in the German CG and corporate control system, but also to provide suggestions for a modernisation of the legislation with respect to the ongoing globalisation and internationalisation of the capital markets and the accompanying transformation of corporate and market structures. After building a theoretical background on the basics of CG, the paper focusses on the German Corporate Governance Code: First, its development history will be mentioned and a brief definition will be given, followed by its

Download or read book The German Corporate Governance Code Application of Standards by Corporate Management written by Jaby Felix Coronel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,3, Munich Business School University of Applied Sciences, language: English, abstract: This Thesis examines the topic of the German Corporate Governance Code and its practical application of the Corporate Management body within DAX-listed companies. Taking as a basis a general understanding of the Code, its statutory provision and relevant content, it will be analyzed how Standards are applied by the corporate body and which recommendations are not being taken into account in practice. In order to provide a holistic evaluation, different literary material and scientific studies are being used to develop a picture of the fulfillment and to stress potentials of improvement. All aspects from the findings are being critically contrasted to characterize the actual situation in Germany. Moreover, it will be analyzed to what extend the different obligations of the Code are affecting the implementation. The German Corporate Governance Code may be generally used as a guideline document of the German General Commission to aim for good and sustainable governance within capital markets and to improve a company’s reputation towards shareholders. While various law legislations are underlying the Standards as well as mandatory obligations, the Code consists of different demands which also address potential commitments for German companies in the future. Some Standards exist on a voluntary basis and do not represent compulsive requirements. This Thesis will therefore assess and analyze the current application of Standards by a group’s Corporate Management. In regards to that, a comprehensive evaluation of implementation will be presented in this analysis.

Download or read book Corporate Governance and Expected Stock Returns written by Andreas Schillhofer and published by Springer-Verlag. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on his Corporate Governance Rating (CGR) for German firms, Andreas Schillhofer documents a positive relationship between the CGR and firm value. In addition, there is strong evidence that expected returns are negatively correlated with the CGR if dividend yields and price-earnings ratios are used as proxies for the cost of capital.

Download or read book German Corporate Governance in International and European Context written by Jean J. du Plessis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides readers with an overview of the unique features of German business and enterprise law and an in-depth analysis of the organs of governance of German public limited companies (general meeting, management board, supervisory board). In addition, approaches for reforms required at the international level are also suggested and discussed, including, among others, the unique interplay and dynamics of the German two-tier board model with the system of codetermination, referring to the arrangement of employees sitting on the supervisory boards of German public limited companies and private companies employing more than 500 employees; also covered are significant recent legal developments in Europe.The book highlights the core function of valuation and financial reporting at the international, European and German levels, with accounting as the documentary proof of good corporate governance. Corporate governance encompasses the free enterprise system, which is treated comprehensively in this book from a German perspective. This distinguishes the book from other books written in English in this subject area, not only because of the comprehensive way it covers German corporate law and corporate governance, but also because of the fact that it provides international and European perspectives on these important topics.The book is addressed to researchers, practitioners and basically anyone with an interest in the complex, but intriguing areas of corporate law and corporate governance.

Download or read book The Influence of Institutional Investors on Corporate Management and Corporate Governance in Germany written by Sebastian Sturm and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diploma Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Law, grade: 1,3, Technical University of Chemnitz, language: English, abstract: Corporate management and corporate governance are becoming more and more crucial in today’s successful economies. With the increasing relevance of capital markets this subject comes more into the focus of the public. Particularly, the fast growing importance of institutional investors is a key factor which helps to explain the changing attitude of managers towards shareholders and corporate governance. In conjunction with the German capital market, a wide variety of mismanagement in German public limited companies has revealed shortfalls of German top-management and corporate control in the last decade. This development was of fundamental importance for the development of the German Corporate Governance Code. Hence, the basic underlying of corporate governance can be attributed to a conflict between the management of a listed corporation and its owners. More precisely, this conflict arises because the management does not adequately comprise the interests of shareholders. In Germany, assets under management of professional investors have increased at 92 percent from 1990 to 2001.1 In addition, a growing administration of private savings by professional fund managers as well as the intensified exercise of influence by institutional investors on corporate governance and corporate management respectively corporate strategy is observable. Similarly, a growing importance of institutional investors could be observed in the United Kingdom as well as in the United States. Within academic literature, the issue of activism by institutional investors in Germany is analyzed little, so far. Furthermore, there are only a few surveys on the outcome of the influence by institutional investors on corporate management. Therefore, this thesis aims to answer the following questions: 1. How was the development of shareholder activism in Germany and how can it be characterized and explained? 2. Is shareholder activism a superior tool in relation to the market of corporate control to solve the principal-agent problem? 3. What do institutional investors demand from German corporations and in particular from corporate management? 4. Which options do institutional investors have to influence corporate management? 5. How are these options for activism covered by the German Corporate Governance Code and the German legal framework? 6. What is the optimum corporate governance from an institutional investor’s angle? 7. What is the empirical outcome?

Download or read book The German Code of Corporate Governance written by Alicja Krum and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2002-11-15 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: The management and supervision of corporations, known as corporate governance in English and, frequently, in German-speaking countries as well, has been a topic of discussion since beginning of the 90's in the USA. After arriving in Great Britain the discussion subsequently spread to Continental Europe. In Germany, the effective supervision of corporations became a central topic of debate after several well-known corporations came under scrutiny for mismanagement. In such cases the corporations supervisory boards were criticised in particular, as their supervision of management was considered insufficient and ineffective. The relation between management and owners of a corporation represents the basic problem of the corporate governance discussion. The management of a corporation must take the interests of large-scale investors and, accordingly, the interests of smaller investors into consideration. Against this background, the influence of the stakeholders is repressed. The shareholder value system, thus, becomes increasingly important. Globalisation and the resulting integration of capital markets has caused more and more large institutional investors -especially, those from Anglo-Saxon countries- to put their financial assets to the test in order to check the efficiency of management and supervision. In Germany, in particular, effective regulations on corporate governance have been missing until now. In most of the other countries with a free market economy, a code of conduct with generally accepted principles is already in existence. These principles enable investors to check and to judge systematically a corporation in regard to its corporate governance. Corporations with transparent supervisory systems obtain clearly better stock quotations as corporations without those systems. Numerous surveys have found that institutional investors are willing to pay up to a 20 percent premium for shares of corporations with good corporate governance. Such investors maintain that transparency and efficient supervision reduce the risk of mismanagement. Due to both the internal pressure of mismanagement and the external change caused by the globalisation of capital markets, the corporate governance discussion in Germany has resulted in much effort to create a system of regulations to make Germany more attractive to international investors. In addition to this, the regulations are intended to stem the criticism of numerous [...]

Download or read book German co determination and corporate governance written by Marc Oliver Cleiss and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Law - Miscellaneous, grade: B+, The University of Hong Kong (Faculty of Law), course: Corporate Governance and Shareholder Remedies, language: English, abstract: In Germany, ‘co-determination’ has a long tradition. Beginning in the late 19th century, the German co-determination system has been developed over more than 100 years to become one of the most dominant co-determination systems in the world. Employees’ co-determination in Germany becomes visible in two different forms: employees’ participation in ‘works councils’ (‘Betriebsrat’) at establishment level (‘betriebliche Mitbestimmung’) and labour (employees and trade union representatives) participation in ‘supervisory boards’ on board level (‘Unternehmensmitbestimmung’). German corporate law distinguishes between the ‘management board’ (‘Vorstand/ Geschäftsführung‘) and the ‘supervisory board’ (‘Aufsichtsrat‘) (‘two-tier boards system’ as opposed to the Anglo-American ‘one-tier system’). Co-determination on board level refers to the representation of employees on the supervisory board. Depending on the industry, the corporation is operating in and the size of labour force, the supervisory board composes of one third (‘third part participation’) to half (‘parity participation’) of employees’ representatives. ‘Corporate governance’, the regulations for legal and actual distribution of management and supervision tasks between the supervisory board, the management board and the shareholders has lead in many countries to the development of codes since the 1990s. Germany also has drawn up a corporate governance code meanwhile – the ‘German Corporate Governance Code’. The code builds together with the ‘Stock Corporation Act’ and the different co-determination acts the legal framework for corporate governance principles in Germany. It aims to make Germany’s corporate governance rules transparent for both national and international investors, thus strengthening confidence in the management of German corporations. The code addresses with its ‘recommendation’ and ‘suggestions’ to all major criticisms from the international community against German corporate governance, for instance the inadequate focus on shareholder interests and the two-tier system of management board and supervisory board. In between time the ‘German Corporate Governance Code’ has achieved a high level of acceptance; in particular in the DAX companies, who set the trend in corporate governance in Germany.

Download or read book Types of Corporate Governance with an emphasis on Germany written by Harry Kreil and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich BWL - Investition und Finanzierung, Note: 1,0, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This paper is structured as follows: After the introduction of why Corporate Governance is important to businesses and a description of the different understandings of Corporate Governance, the following chapter describes the different types of Corporate Governance. An emphasis will be set on how it works especially in Germany. Finally there will be a conclusion which sums up the findings and gives an outlook on the future development.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management written by Samuel Idowu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 4043 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of reference for sustainability in business and management. It covers both traditional and emerging concepts and terms and is fully international in its scope. More than 700 contributions of internationally renowned experts provide a definitive access to the knowledge in the area of sustainable and responsible management. All actors in the field will find reliable and up to date definitions and explanations of the key terms and concepts of management in this reference work. The Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management represents all aspects of management and business conduct. It takes sustainability as a management concept that gives due credit to the complexity and diverging constraints in which businesses and corporations act today, and it emphasizes and focuses approaches that help ensure that today's management decisions and actions will be the basis for tomorrow's prosperity.

Download or read book Corporate Governance in Germany and the US written by Marcus Fuchs and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - General and Theories of International Politics, grade: 1,3 (German Grading System), University of Washington, language: English, abstract: After scandals like Enron in the past years, companies have been pressured to establish Corporate Governance systems to control their management. The design of these systems is often determined on a national level, but varies substantially from country to country. This paper deals with the different systems of Corporate Governance in the United States and Germany and establishes a comparison. The focus is put on how the German system is different from that of the US. At the end, recent developments in the Corporate Governance landscape are discussed. To begin with, it is important to understand what Corporate Governance means. It is defined as “The system of rules, practices and processes by which a company is directed and controlled”. These rules, practices and processes are supposed to achieve values like integrity, transparency and fairness. Thereby, Corporate Governance can support a corporation to “fulfill its goals and objectives in a manner that adds to the value of the company and is also beneficial for all stakeholders in the long term”. Furthermore, it strengthens a company’s reputation and has shown to increase share prices by establishing trust. Potential investors, who might not be familiar with a corporation’s processes and controlling practices in detail, can rely on statutory monitoring systems.

Download or read book The Role of Internal Audit in Corporate Governance in Europe written by European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing (ECIIA) and published by Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a survey between all national Institutes of Internal Auditing in Europe this book shows a widespread picture of European Corporate Governance activities and Internal Audit: - Specific questions regarding the current involvement of Internal Audit in Corporate Governance aspects; - the State of the art of Internal Audit: position, scope and quality management; - Focal points for improving the role of Internal Audit in Corporate Governance in Europe. All insights of the book are concentrated on European companies and offer European solutions for Internal Auditing. They are empirically founded and written in a clear and direct way for practical use. This is the first work for the European profession of Internal Audit that formulates eight focal points for improving the role of Internal Audit in Corporate Governance in Europe. The book shows how Internal Audit can fundamentally strengthen good Corporate Governance.

Download or read book A Primer on Corporate Governance written by Till Talaulicar and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-06 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents a thorough overview of corporate governance in Germany. Comprehending the German corporate governance system is challenging as it differs remarkably from the Anglo-American one and rests on rules and regulations from various sources. After introducing some macroeconomic fundamentals of the German economy and its stock markets, this book therefore provides an in-depth description of the regulatory framework of corporate governance in Germany, its basics and its peculiarities from a global perspective. Moreover, the structure and operation of governing the German stock corporation is explained both comprehensively and comprehensibly. The target audience includes executives, investors, scholars and rule-makers interested in deepening their understanding of the German system of corporate governance, its fundamentals, forms and distinctive features.

Download or read book Corporate Governance in Germany written by Jens Köke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate governance is an important issue on the research agenda of financial economists. Using a new and unique data set of German corporations this book examines three topics that are crucial to a better understanding of corporate governance: (a) the frequency, causes, and consequences of control transfers, (b) the determinants of acquisition and failure, and (c) the role of corporate governance and market discipline for productivity growth. This book points out methodological drawbacks of previous empirical studies and provides suggestions on how to avoid these problems in research practice.

Download or read book Kodexakzeptanz 2018 written by Johannes Beyenbach and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German Abstract: Die Studie analysiert und bewertet systematisch und umfassend die Akzeptanz der aktuellen, vierzehnten Fassung des Deutschen Corporate Governance Kodex (DCGK) durch DAX-und MDAX-Gesellschaften anhand der durch §161 AktG vorgeschriebenen Entsprechenserklärungen. Analysiert wird das grundsätzliche Niveau der Kodexakzeptanz, aber auch das Entsprechensverhalten der Gesellschaften auf Kapitel- und Ziffernebene, bis hin zur Analyse einzelner Empfehlungen. Darüber hinaus untersucht die Studie die Governance Qualität der Gesellschaften basierend auf vier eigens hierfür konstruierten Governance Indizes, welche die Kernbereiche Transparenz, Kontrolle/Überwachung, Anreizsysteme und Vielfalt abbilden. Ergänzt wird dies um Analysen hinsichtlich des Verhaltens bezüglich Kodexanregungen, des Zusammenhangs zwischen Complianceverhalten und Unternehmensgröße bzw. Eigentümerstruktur und einer Analyse der im Rahmen der Entsprechenserklärungen gegebenen Erläuterungen.Im Rahmen der Studie werden die bis 31. März 2018 veröffentlichten Entsprechenserklärungen (gemäß §161 AktG) der in DAX und MDAX notierten Gesellschaften analysiert. Die untersuchten Unternehmen repräsentieren zu Ende 2017 etwa 86 Prozent der Marktkapitalisierung des Prime Standard der Deutschen Börse, sodass die Studie einen umfassenden und gleichzeitig individuell- differenzierten Blick auf die marktrelevante Akzeptanz des DCGK in den größten deutschen Aktiengesellschaften vermittelt.

Download or read book Corporate Governance Zur Theorie der Corporate Governance written by Emanuel Zimmermann and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensethik, Wirtschaftsethik, Note: 1,0, Fachhochschule Hof, Veranstaltung: Unternehmensbewertung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Die Akte Siemens - Innenansicht eines korrupten Konzerns". So titelte "Der Spiegel" in seiner Ausgabe vom 14. April 2008 und setzte sich damit mit den jüngsten Anschuldigungen gegen die Siemens AG auseinander. Diese Form von Missmanagement und Unternehmensschieflage, wie sie in dem Artikel beschrieben wird, ist jedoch weder ein Einzelfall noch eine Entwicklung der letzten Monate. So sind die Qualität der Unternehmensführung und deren wirksame Überwachung bereits seit einigen Jahren in der Diskussion. Besonders in den USA und in Europa entbrannte die Debatte auf Grund zahlreicher öffentlichkeitswirksamer Fälle von Unternehmenszusammenbrüchen wie beispielsweise die von Flowtex, Holzmann, Enron oder Worldcom und erlangte somit einen bislang noch nicht dagewesenen Stellenwert. Neben den beschriebenen Fällen von Missmanagement tragen aber auch die Globalisierung der Wirtschaft und die Liberalisierung der Kapitalmärkte, und der dadurch verbundene Zugang zu einem größeren Kreis von Kapitalgebern, zu der Forderung nach transparenten und effizienten Formen der Unternehmensführung bei. Es ist davon auszugehen, dass die Kosten der Refinanzierung zunehmend an die Corporate Governance Struktur eines Unternehmens gekoppelt sind, da besonders Banken und institutionelle Investoren ein besonderes Augenmerk auf diese legen. Die Skandale sowie die Internationalisierung sorgten maßgeblich dafür, dass Corporate Governance nicht, ein der "Scientific Community" vorbehaltenes, Spezialthema blieb, sondern vielmehr seit nunmehr über einem Jahrzehnt aus der Diskussion über gesellschaftsrechtliche und betriebswirtschaftliche Fragestellungen kaum mehr wegzudenken ist. Darüber hinaus zählt es zu einem der meistbesprochenen Managementthemen. Auf Grund der Brisanz des Themas werden im Rahmen dieser Arbeit die Gru

Download or read book Akzeptanz Des Deutschen Corporate Governance Kodex written by Christian R. G. Kohl and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Im Juni 2012 wurde die zehnte Fassung des Deutschen Corporate Governance Kodex (DCGK) im Bundesanzeiger veröffentlicht. Der vorliegenden Beitrag analysiert und bewertet systematisch und umfassend die Akzeptanz des Kodex und das Complianceverhalten der durch den DCGK adressierten börsennotierten Gesellschaften in DAX und MDAX anhand der bis Mai 2013 veröffentlichten Entsprechenserklärungen nach §161 AktG. Insbesondere werden vier auf ausgewählten Kodexempfehlungen basierende Indizes vorgestellt, welche einen individuellen und detaillierten Blick auf die Governance-Qualität der größten deutschen Unternehmen ermöglichen.We analyze the compliance behavior of German listed firms with the German Corporate Governance Code in 2012, covering DAX and MDAX corporations which published their compliance statement until May 2013. In particular, we examine the firms' governance quality based on four specially constructed indices that represent the key areas of corporate governance (transparency, monitoring/control, incentives and diversity). Moreover, we analyze the relationship between firm characteristics and the governance indices.

Download or read book The influence of change management practices on the implementation of Compliance Management Systems in companies written by Stefan Geissdoerfer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 2, Donau-Universität Krems (Department for economic- and management sciences), language: English, abstract: This Master Thesis deals with the impact of change management practices on the implementation or revision of compliance management systems in companies. The main target of the Master Thesis is, to elaborate on the question: “which implications does the definition of Compliance management as a change management process have”? Derived from that, the Compliance Management Systems of four selected companies have been reviewed. The Master Thesis also includes a theoretical part in which the basics of the topic have been evaluated. To answer the research question, an online survey with Compliance employees of the selected companies and other companies has been conducted.