Corporate constitution

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The corporate constitution is the entirety of all constitutive and long-term regulations for companies; especially with regard to the internal order of a company. This is necessary so that the company can align its activities with the company's goals.

The corporate constitution , which primarily describes the internal order of the company, thus differs from corporate governance , which deals more with questions of the (legal and factual) integration of the company into its environment. At CG, the focus is on large listed (stock) companies, whereas the concept of corporate governance can be applied to all forms of business.

The rules and norms anchored in the corporate constitution are relatively freely compatible and only limited by the applicable legal framework, in particular company law and co-determination law .

Content of a corporate constitution

The specific contents of the corporate constitution must be worked out individually for each company. Nevertheless, one can record general facts:

  • general corporate purpose (strategic target planning)
  • Corporate bodies and the competence system (organizational units)
  • Rights and duties of members

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon, keyword: corporate constitution .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Weber / Rüdiger Kabst: Introduction to Business Administration , Gabler, 2006, ISBN 3-409-63011-2 , p. 42.

literature

  • Horst Steinmann : The large company has a conflict of interest. An economics contribution to the discussion on basic questions of a reform of the corporate order in highly developed industrial societies . Habilitation thesis, Clausthal. Stuttgart: Poeschel, 1969, XIV, 329 pp.
  • Helmut Haussmann : Company rules and self-determination. Organizational approaches to direct and indirect participation . With a foreword by Ralf Dahrendorf. At the same time: Dissertation, 1975, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Faculty of Business and Economics. Social sciences Nuremberg. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1977, 167 pp., ISBN 3-261-01757-0 (Social Research and Social Policy ; Vol. 3)
  • Gerhard Schewe: corporate constitution. Corporate governance in the area of ​​tension between management, control and representation of interests . Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer, 2005, XIX, 355 pp., ISBN 3-540-24517-0