Mary O'Sullivan is Assistant Professor at INSEAD, France. Previous positions have included Business Analyst at McKinsey and Company, Inc., London (198890), and Visiting Scholar, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo (July 1996).

"...this book, based on detailed historical research in both countries, represents a powerful challenge to current orthodoxy. It also has the great merit of focusing attention on questions that really matter. Her answers should give admirers of American capitalism pause for thought." Geoffrey Owen, Financial Times, 14 June 2000.

• Introduction ; Chapter 1: Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Governance ; Chapter 2: Transforming the Debates on Corporate Governance ; Chapter 3: The Foundations of Managerial Control in the United States ; Chapter 4: The Post-War Evolution of Managerial Control in the United States ; Chapter 5: Challenges to Post-War Managerial Control in the US ; Chapter 6: US Corporate Responses to New Challenges ; Chapter 7: From Managerial to Contested Control in Germany ; Chapter 8: The Emerging Challenges to Organizational Control in Germany ; Conclusion

Mary O'Sullivan is Assistant Professor at INSEAD, France. Previous positions have included Business Analyst at McKinsey and Company, Inc., London (198890), and Visiting Scholar, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo (July 1996).

"...this book, based on detailed historical research in both countries, represents a powerful challenge to current orthodoxy. It also has the great merit of focusing attention on questions that really matter. Her answers should give admirers of American capitalism pause for thought." Geoffrey Owen, Financial Times, 14 June 2000.

• Introduction ; Chapter 1: Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Governance ; Chapter 2: Transforming the Debates on Corporate Governance ; Chapter 3: The Foundations of Managerial Control in the United States ; Chapter 4: The Post-War Evolution of Managerial Control in the United States ; Chapter 5: Challenges to Post-War Managerial Control in the US ; Chapter 6: US Corporate Responses to New Challenges ; Chapter 7: From Managerial to Contested Control in Germany ; Chapter 8: The Emerging Challenges to Organizational Control in Germany ; Conclusion

Mary O'Sullivan is Assistant Professor at INSEAD, France. Previous positions have included Business Analyst at McKinsey and Company, Inc., London (198890), and Visiting Scholar, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo (July 1996).

"...this book, based on detailed historical research in both countries, represents a powerful challenge to current orthodoxy. It also has the great merit of focusing attention on questions that really matter. Her answers should give admirers of American capitalism pause for thought." Geoffrey Owen, Financial Times, 14 June 2000.

• Introduction ; Chapter 1: Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Governance ; Chapter 2: Transforming the Debates on Corporate Governance ; Chapter 3: The Foundations of Managerial Control in the United States ; Chapter 4: The Post-War Evolution of Managerial Control in the United States ; Chapter 5: Challenges to Post-War Managerial Control in the US ; Chapter 6: US Corporate Responses to New Challenges ; Chapter 7: From Managerial to Contested Control in Germany ; Chapter 8: The Emerging Challenges to Organizational Control in Germany ; Conclusion