Knut Sogner is Professor of Economic History at BI Norwegian Business School.

Andrea Colli is Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University, Milan.

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 [...] 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