| 1 | Introduction: German Corporate Governance in Comparative Context |
| 2 | The Market for Corporate Control |
| 2.1 | The U.S. Experience: Efficiency or Opportunism? |
| 2.2 | The Absence of Hostile Takeovers |
| 3 | The Role of Takeovers in Germany |
| 3.1 | Institutional Factors Suppressing a Market for Corporate Control |
| 3.2 | Hostile "Stake-Building" as a Mechanism of Control? |
| 4 | The Case of Mannesmann |
| 4.1 | Ownership, the Stock Market, and "Shareholder Value" |
| 4.2 | The Takeover Bid |
| 4.3 | The Defensive Strategy Pursued by Mannesmann |
| 4.4 | Banks and Investment Bankers |
| 4.5 | The Role of Labor: Works Council, Employee Share Ownership, and Unions |
| 4.6 | "Germany - Where Capitalism Operates a Little Differently": Corporate Culture in Politics, Press, and Public |
| 4.7 | The Conclusion of the Takeover Battle |
| 4.8 | Post-merger Reorganization |
| 5 | Conclusion: Hostile Takeovers and the Institutional Change in German Corporate Governance |
| 5.1 | Mannesmann in Context |
| 5.2 | Political Regulation of Takeovers |
| 5.3 | Institutional Change and the German "Model" of Corporate Governance |
| References |