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Contribution Details

Type Master's Thesis
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Raiffeisen Group – Corporate Governance and the Vincenz Affair
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Elias Ritter
Supervisors
  • Jacqueline Haverals
  • Michel Habib
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Faculty Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics
Number of Pages 108
Date 2019
Abstract Text This paper examines the specific corporate governance problems of a cooperative bank. It is based on the corporate governance affair of the Raiffeisen Switzerland cooperative and examines why the traditional institutions and mechanisms of corporate governance failed in this case. Furthermore, this analysis recommends measures to help improve corporate governance. The analysis suggests that corporate governance was severely weakened by the cooperative composition of the board of directors, the apathetic cooperative members, the dominance of the central cooperative, the absence of blockholders and the missing threat of hostile takeovers.
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