The Spirits of capitalism: German, Japanese, and US senior executive perceptions of why firms exist
Author: Witt, Michael A. ; Redding, GordonINSEAD Area: Economics and Political Science ; Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise Series: Working Paper ; 2009/61/EPS/EFE Publisher: Fontainebleau : INSEAD, 2009.Language: EnglishType of document: INSEAD Working PaperAbstract: We present ethnographic evidence that senior executives of major firms in the three leading advanced industrialised economies those of Germany, Japan, and the United States hold very different views of the reasons for the existence of the firm. Our results have implications for the understanding of cross-societal variations in economic organization and action, including corporate governance as it is broadly conceived and strategy.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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We present ethnographic evidence that senior executives of major firms in the three leading advanced industrialised economies those of Germany, Japan, and the United States hold very different views of the reasons for the existence of the firm. Our results have implications for the understanding of cross-societal variations in economic organization and action, including corporate governance as it is broadly conceived and strategy.
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