Corporate governance is not just about models of best practice organization or prescriptions following laws or social conventions. It is also about persons of power-seeking performance. They do so in ways that transcend structures and pre-conceived notions of the structural set-up of the business.

Introduction: Bringing History Back into Corporate Governance Studies Knut Sogner and Andrea Colli 1. Managerial Capitalism and Corporate Governance Leslie Hannah 2. Lost From View: The Legal Invisibility of Managers in the UK Andrew Johnston and Blanche Segrestin 3. The Rise and Fall of Managerial Capitalism in Norway, 1895–1940 Knut Sogner 4. From Liberalism to Fascism and Back Again: Law, Politics, and the Evolution of Corporate Governance in Germany (1850–1950) Stéphanie Collet and Caroline Fohlin 5. The Organization of Banking: A Case Study of Governance and Performance Harold James 6. Corporate Governance versus Business Group Governance, Part 1: The Low-Income Trap Luis Alfonso Dau, Randall K. Morck, and Bernard Yeung 7. Corporate Governance versus Business Group Governance, Part 2: The Middle-Income Trap Luis Alfonso Dau, Randall K. Morck, and Bernard Yeung 8. The Emergence of New Corporate Governance and the Consolidation of Personalized Managerial Capitalism in South Korea Dong-Woon Kim 9. Corporate Governance Reform in Japan: Building a System for Long-Term Value Creation Ulrike Schaede 10. Maximizing Shareholder Value as an Ideology of Predatory Value Extraction William Lazonick 11. The Perplexing Roles of Institutional Investors in a World of Multiple Investing Entities Peter Gourevitch and James Shinn 12. Personal Capitalism between Individualism and Professionalization Andrea Colli