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Contests for Corporate Control: Corporate Governance and Economic Performance in the United...

By Weller, Christian E.
Publication: Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Date: Tuesday, January 1 2002

Contests for Corporate Control: Corporate Governance and Economic Performance in the United States and Germany. By Mary O'Sullivan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 332 pp. ISBN 01-9829-346-1, $70.00 (cloth); 01-9924-486-3, $24.95 (paper).

Why are some companies more successful than others? Why are some industrialized countries better at increasing their productivity levels than others? And why are the fortunes of financial market investors and workers moving apart? Mary O'Sullivan presents a stimulating new perspective on these primarily macro-economic issues b

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