Unternehmensmitbestimmung, Corporate Governance und der Deutsche Corporate Governance Kodex

Co-determination, i.e. the representation of employees on the supervisory board, is a unique feature of German industrial relations. The German Corporate Governance Code aims at illustrating the German corporate governance system. Nicole Gietzen identifies inconsistencies and discrepancies between the co-determination laws and the Code and argues that the »co-determination gap« of the Code needs to be closed.