P 02 - 902 Shareholder Value , Management Culture and Production Regimes in the Transformation of the German Chemical - Pharmaceutical Industry
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One of the greatest points of controversy in the recent literature in political economy is the extent to which "shareholder value" oriented institutional investors are drivers of change in national systems of corporate governance. This article argues that the key question is how management cultures shape managerial responses to pressures for change from capital markets. Empirical evidence for this argument is provided through an examination of changes since the mid-1990s at the "Big Three" German integrated chemical/pharmaceutical companies: Hoechst, Bayer and BASF. Despite facing similar demands from shareholder-value oriented investors, management at the three companies have pursued quite different strategies. The end result, however, may be the same from a production regime perspective, that is, the long-run withdrawal of "Big Pharma" from Germany as a location for R&D due to a more favorable institutional framework in the US. Zusammenfassung Eine der größten Kontroversen in der Literatur der politischen Ökonomie ist an der Frage entbrannt, in welchem Ausmaß dem " Shareholder value " orienterte institutionelle Investoren für die Veränderung von nationalen Systemen der Corporate Governance verantwortlich sind. Dieser Artikel entwickelt das Argument , dass die diesbezügliche Kernfrage ist, auf welche Weise Management-kulturen die Reaktionen des Managements auf kapitalmarktseitigen Anpas-sungsdruck beeinflußen. Diese Argument erfährt empirische Untermauerung durch eine Untersuchung der " drei Großen " der integrierten chemisch-pharma-zeutischen Industrie Deutschlands: Hoechst, Bayer und BASF. Obwohl die Anforderungen Shareholer value – orientierter Investoren an die drei Unter-nehmen die gleichen waren, hat das Management jeder einzelnen Firma eine individuelle Strategie verfolgt. Aus der Perspektive der Produktionsregime mag das Endergebnis trotzdem dasselbe sein, nämlich der Rückzug von " Big Pharma " aus Deutschland als Standort der Forschung und Entwicklung, der besseren institutionellen Rahmenbedingen in den USA wegen.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002