Example corporate responsibility dissertation topic 2:

An analysis of the agency problem in German public companies and the ways in which changes to corporate governance can overcome these.

This dissertation firstly outlines the agency problem in german with reference to both existing literature and actual organisations. Thereaftre it outlimes the existing processes of corporate governance in the organisations chosen for study before evaluating their effectiveness. In the third part of the dissertation international comparisons are made with corporate governance modesl used in the UK from which German corporations could learn a range of lessons. Accordingly, this is a dissertation that combined grounded research with practical application within the business world.

Suggested initial topic reading:

• Shleifer, A. and Vishny, R.W. (1997). ‘A survey of corporate governance’. The Journal of Finance. Vol. 52(2), pp.737-783.
• Strausz, R. (1997). ‘Delegation of monitoring in a principal-agent relationship’. Review of Economic Studies Vol. 64, pp.337-357.