Download or read book Corporate Governance, Competition, and Political Parties written by Roger M. Barker and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, significant changes in corporate governance in Continental Europe have been increasingly evident. 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 in Europe.