Corporate forms and organizational choice in international insurance : an overview of the history and theory / Robin Pearson and Takau Yoneyama -- Tsuneta Yano, founder of the first mutual company in Japan : was he an obstinate mutualist? / Takau Yoneyama -- Organizational choice in UK marine insurance / Robin Pearson and Helen Doe -- Risk management by Mitsubishi : from self-insurance to captive insurance / Hisaaki
Kamiya -- The survival and success of Swedish mutual insurers / Mats Larsson and Mikael Lönnborg -- Organizational forms in insurance : a comparison of the USA and Germany during industrialization / Robin Pearson -- The world insured South Africa : early insurance activities of insurance companies in South Africa, 1820-1910 / Grietjie Verhoef -- Business strategies under conditions of uncertainty : the rise of mutual life insurers in colonial Australia / Monica Keneley -- Support for mutual insurance companies during the Franco dictatorship (1939-75) / Jerònia Pons Pons -- The development of the mutual form and its influence on the life insurance industry : evidence from Japan during the period 1881 to 1935 / YingYing Jiang -- Growth performance and organizational forms : the case of Swedish life insurance, 1890-1950 / Magnus Lindmark and Lars Fredrik Andersson -- An attempt by a Black mutual life insurance company to demutualize : the case of Golden State Mutual of Los Angeles / Natsuki Kinoshita -- The insurance demutualization process develops in Spain with Mapfre / Leonardo Caruana de la CagigasGiven the infinite variety of risks throughout history, it is perhaps unsurprising that insurance - the world's primary risk mitigation industry - developed a wide range of organisational forms by which it was delivered. Yet we know little about how and why different forms were chosen in the past, or why they survived or disappeared. This book is the first to examine the development of multiple organisational forms in insurance from an historical and international comparative context, and to relate historical analysis to modern organisational theory. Thirteen chapters cover eight major markets, US, UK, Germany, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Australia, South Africa, which together account for over half of all world insurance today. Each chapter is authored by an expert in their field, and several include new datasets. Major themes covered are the variety, choice, governance and regulation of organisational forms in insurance, the experience of mutual insurance in frontier economies and uncertain political environments, the long-run business performance of different organisational forms, and the problems surrounding the demutualization of modern insurance companies.0The book suggests the need for important revisions to current organisational theory, and it highlights several explanatory factors that have received little attention from scholars. These include the importance of regulation and the role of the state in shaping the organisational landscape of insurance at different times and places; the role of entrepreneurship in organisational choice; the utility of organisational forms as a risk management device, and the significance of cultural preferences in the selection of organisational forms
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