Shareholder voting in Germany
- Shareholder voting is back on the agenda of public debate for several reasons. One is the investors’ internationalization of capital investments and the raising of funds globally by companies. It can be predicted that considering the growing together of capital markets the trend to international investments will increase not least because the introduction of the Euro will create a uniform European stock market. This leads to the question how the law deals with this development and its problems. The EU Commission has commissioned a comparative study dealing, inter alia, with shareholders’ representation at general meetings in the EU member states.1 The aim is to simplify the operating regulations for public limited companies in the EU. Furthermore, the internationalization of shareholdings leads the investors to ask how their interests are protected abroad. Are the mechanisms of shareholder protection sufficient for foreign investors? In particular the formation of transnational companies like Daimler-Chrysler will change corporate governance systems. It remains to be seen whether and how foreign institutional investors will use measures of - in this case - German corporate law to control the management. From a microeconomic point of view the question is what specific features of a given corporate governance system might contribute to better performance of firms. The following remarks will however, be confined to one specific aspect of corporate governance only, the exercise of shareholders’ voting rights at the general meeting.
Verfasserangaben: | Theodor BaumsGND, Rainer Schmitz |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-7807 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | Institut für Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht (Osnabrück): Arbeitspapiere ; Nr. 76 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Deutsch): | Institut für Bankrecht (Frankfurt, Main): Arbeitspapiere ; Nr. 76 |
Schriftenreihe (Bandnummer): | Arbeitspapiere / Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Institut für Bankrecht (76) |
Dokumentart: | Arbeitspapier |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Jahr der Fertigstellung: | 1999 |
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 1999 |
Veröffentlichende Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 11.04.2005 |
GND-Schlagwort: | Deutschland; Wahlverhalten; Hauptversammlung |
Seitenzahl: | 25 |
Quelle: | Institut für Bankrecht, Arbeitspapiere 76 , publ. in: Baums/Wymeersch [Hrsg.], Shareholder Voting Rights and Practices in Europe and the United States, 1999, S. 109 ff. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 197121616 |
Institute: | Rechtswissenschaft / Rechtswissenschaft |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |