TY - BOOK AU - Barker, Roger M. TI - Corporate governance, competition, and political parties : explaining corporate governance change in Europe SN - 9780191722 AV - HD2741 U1 - 658.42094 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Corporate governance KW - Europe KW - Stockholders KW - Competition KW - Organizational change KW - Corporations KW - Investor relations KW - Political aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199576814.001.0001 ER -