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Corporate forms and organizational choice in international insurance /

Corporate forms and organizational choice in international insurance / edited by Robin Pearson and Takau Yoneyama. - 1st ed. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015. - xviii, 330 p. ; 24 cm.

1. Corporate forms and organizational choice in international insurance : an overview of the history and theory; 2. Tsuneta Yano, founder of the first mutual company in Japan : was he an obstinate mutualist?; 3. Organizational choice in UK marine insurance; 4. Risk management by Mitsubishi : from self-insurance to captive insurance; 5. The survival and success of Swedish mutual insurers; 6. Organizational forms in insurance : a comparison of the USA and Germany during industrialization; 7. The world insured South Africa : early insurance activities of insurance companies in South Africa, 1820-1910; 8. Business strategies under conditions of uncertainty : the rise of mutual life insurers in colonial Australia; 9. Support for mutual insurance companies during the Franco dictatorship (1939-75); 10. The development of the mutual form and its influence on the life insurance industry: evidence from Japan during the period 1881 to 1935; 11.Growth performance and organizational forms : the case of Swedish life insurance, 1890-1950; 12. An attempt by a Black mutual life insurance company to demutualize: the case of Golden State Mutual of Los Angeles; 13. The insurance demutualization process develops in Spain with Mapfre.

9780198739005 (hbk.)


Corporate form
Organizational choice -- international insurance.

346.06626 PEA