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German Model or German Models? The spatial distribution of capital and labour in the corporate governance of stock listed companies

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In the varieties of capitalism literature, Germany is understood as a monolithic model of a coordinated market economy. This analysis shows how institutions for configuring capital and labour at the national level are implemented at state and regional level. By focussing on the labour side this article gives a contribution to the investor dominated shareholder value discussion. It identifies a spatial distinction between capital and labour and concludes a variation of German Models instead of one German Model.

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  • Scholz, Robert, 2017. "German Model or German Models? The spatial distribution of capital and labour in the corporate governance of stock listed companies," Discussion Papers, Research Group Globalization, Work, and Production SP III 2017-301, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
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    Keywords

    Corporate Governance; Labour-Management Relations; Political Economy; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Unternehmensführung; Arbeitgeber-Arbeitnehmer-Beziehungen; Politische Ökonomie; Räumliche Verteilung regionalökonomischer Aktivitäten;
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    JEL classification:

    • G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
    • J53 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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