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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on August 27, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(3):475-488; doi:10.1093/es/khm073
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

A New Wave in the History of Corporate Governance

Gary Herrigel

Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Contact information: Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, 5828S. University Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60 637, USA

g-herrigel@uchicago.edu

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This special issue showcases a new wave of historical research on corporate governance. The new wave is reacting to the exhaustion of the intellectual agenda of the initial scholarship devoted to the question of the emergence and variable development of corporate governance systems in different national economies. Indeed, in many ways the new wave represents a moment of genuine intellectual liberation. Much of the old literature focused nearly exclusively on questions regarding the concentration or dispersion of ownership, and attendant issues of the strength of minority protections, the role of banks, and the depth of the securities market in different countries. New wave scholars are asking historical questions about types of corporate governance and the evolution of national systems that literally could not be seen within the categories of the old debate—or if they could be seen, were thought to be so tangential to the dynamics of efficient governance that . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   First Wave History of Corporate Governance
 

   The New Wave
 

   The Essays in This Issue
 

   Conclusion
 

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