Corporate governance, competition, and political parties : explaining corporate governance change in Europe / [electronic resource] Roger M. Barker. Barker, Roger M. Corporate governance Europe. Stockholders Europe. Competition Europe. Organizational change Europe. Corporations Investor relations Political aspects Europe. HD2741 658.42094 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. Significant changes in corporate governance in continental Europe have been increasingly evident in the last decade. This book argues that firms in some of these countries have eschewed the traditional stakeholder-orientation for a strategy based on the maximization of shareholder value, despite a period of social democratic politics. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. 2010. 2010 Text 1 online resource (xx, 327 p.) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199576814.001.0001 eng Europe. Europe. Europe. Europe. Europe.