"Occupational pensions have become a focal point of corporate social policy, also in compensating for reform-induced cutbacks to statutory old-age insurance. The task of implementing and administering corporate pension schemes gives rise at all levels to numerous questions of law, some of which also have an ethical component. The financial and economic crisis has moreover demonstrated the importance of control mechanisms for such company plans. A prime objective of this work is to analyse cooperation among the social partners, and to depict the scopes of action as well as the supervisory and decision-making competences conceded to the various actors"--Provided by publisher.