Research Visit and Seminar by Prof. Gerhard Schnyder.

On  21st November, CRECIS had invited Prof. Gerhard Schnyder from Loughborough University (London).  On this occasion, Prof. Schnyder gave a research seminar to the PhD students. 

In this seminar, he studies the decoupling – i.e. the discrepancies between formal policies and actual practices and outcomes – of legal minority shareholder protection mechanisms in four European countries. He goes beyond previous studies that have investigated policy-practice and means-end decoupling in the same context by using a unique, longitudinal dataset to investigate the multi-level nature of decoupling. His findings suggest that decoupling is context specific and the extent to which policy-practice decoupling occurs may depend on a country’s legal style.

Dr. Gerhard Schnyder is a Reader in International Management at Loughborough University London, which he recently joined from King’s College London. Before that he was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge (2007 – 2009) and the Centre for International Studies, and Diplomacy (CISD), SOAS, University of London (2009). He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Lausanne (2008).

In his research, he is interested in the ways in which formal and informal institutions shape economic behaviour and economic structures in different countries. Dr. Schnyder has published 20 refereed journal articles and book chapters and has co-authored a book on the history of Swiss corporate governance. He has obtained several research fellowships from the Swiss National Science Foundation and a large grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

He is actively involved in the Modern Corporation Project at CASS Business School, and has coordinated the “Markets, Firms, and Institutions” network at the SASE annual meetings at MIT (2012), University of Milan (2013), University of Chicago (2014), LSE (2015), Berkeley (2016), and University of Lyon (2017).