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Human Rights and Corporate Wrongs
Closing the Governance Gap
Inbunden, 2015
1843 kr
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The effects of globalisation, together with the increase in foreign investment and resource development within the developing world, have created a context for human rights abuses by States in which transnational corporations are complicit. This timely book considers how these 'governance gaps', as …
Directors’ Duties and Shareholder Litigation in the Wake of the Financial Crisis
Inbunden, 2012
1843 kr
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The financial crisis revealed failings at board level at many financial institutions. But despite calls for bank boards to be held to account, there has been a remarkable paucity of litigation against bank directors for breach of their duties. This book assesses whether the law relating to …
Global Corporations and Sustainability
Rethinking Legal and Economic Frameworks
Inbunden, 2025
1827 kr
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This timely book examines how international legal regimes interact to govern corporate sustainability and how this interaction may enable harmful corporate conduct. With a focus on human rights abuse and the impacts of climate change, contributors from diverse legal backgrounds critically analyse …
Stakeholder Engagement in European Companies
Company Law Perspectives
Av Hanne S. Birkmose, Karsten Engsig Sørensen
Inbunden, 2025
2065 kr
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This book evaluates the imperative for companies to broaden their stakeholder engagement. Contributors compare and analyse various stakeholder engagement models within European company law, whether national company law or EU law, examining their efficacy, benefits, and limitations.Leading experts …
Governance of Distressed Firms
Av David Milman
Inbunden, 2013
1685 kr
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This detailed book examines how the law can provide a discrete governance regime for financially distressed firms.The concept of a distressed firm covers businesses that are struggling, but have not yet entered formal insolvency, as well as those businesses that are undergoing a formal insolvency …
Legal Framework for Emerging Business Models
Dynamic Networks as Collaborative Contracts
Inbunden, 2012
2160 kr
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The last two decades have witnessed the growth of new forms of entrepreneurial cooperation such as dynamic networks like virtual enterprises and enterprise pools. These business forms are often hybrid, having elements of both contract-based organizations and corporate forms, in particular …
Corporate Social Responsibility in Contemporary China
Inbunden, 2014
2187 kr
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China's recent economic transformation and integration into the world economy has coincided with increasing pressure for corporate law reform to make corporate social responsibility (CSR) integral to business and management strategy in China. This timelybook critically analyses contemporary notions …
Corporate Social Responsibility, Private Law and Global Supply Chains
Inbunden, 2015
1764 kr
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'Rühmkorf's thought-provoking book has a powerful message: that we cannot rely on the discretion of business to promote CSR voluntarily. Through the devastating example of the Rana Plaza disaster, Rühmkorf shows that we must get beyond business rhetoric and develop a multidimensional approach to …
Reframing Corporate Governance
Company Law Beyond Law and Economics
Av Javier Reyes
Inbunden, 2018
1653 kr
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This stimulating book offers an astute analysis of corporate governance from both a historical and a philosophical point of view. Exploring how the modern corporation developed, from Ancient Rome and the Middle Ages up to the present day, Javier Reyes identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the …
Company Share
Legal Regulation and Public Policy
Av David Milman
Inbunden, 2018
1653 kr
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The legal regulation of company shares is a fundamental building block in a capitalist society. This insightful book provides an historical analysis of the phenomenon, investigating underlying policy issues and considering relevant aspects of current law to explore possible future trends. David …
Changing Sustainability Norms through Communication Processes
The Emergence of the Business and Human Rights Regime as Transnational Law
Inbunden, 2017
2160 kr
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Applying the emergent Business and Human Rights (BHR) regime as a case, this book analyses regulatory strategies, communicative approaches and public-private processes to develop new sustainability-related norms, particularly for business, for maintaining and promoting public policy objectives and …
Bad Business Practice
Criminal Law, Regulation and the Reconfiguration of the Business Model
Av Christopher Harding, Alison Cronin
Inbunden, 2022
1732 kr
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This cutting-edge book critically reviews the field of attempted legal control and regulation of delinquent conduct by business actors in the form of exploitative, collusive and corrupt behaviour. It explores key topics including victimhood, accountability, theories of trading and shared …
Public Procurement and Human Rights
Opportunities, Risks and Dilemmas for the State as Buyer
Av Olga Martin-Ortega, Claire Methven O’Brien
Inbunden, 2019
1764 kr
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Important new policy frameworks call on governments to ensure respect for human rights by businesses and to secure a transition to sustainable consumption. Public procurement accounts for a significant share of the global economy, and nearly 30% of government expenditure across OECD countries. But …
Beyond Shareholder Value
A Framework for Stakeholder Governance
Inbunden, 2021
2223 kr
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This timely and engaging book examines how maximizing shareholder value has played a dominant role in corporate governance over recent decades, and analyzes the resulting effect on share prices in the stock markets. Alongside the rise in corporate power and deepening economic inequality, the author …
Technology and Corporate Law
How Innovation Shapes Corporate Activity
Av Andrew Godwin, Pey W. Lee m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2065 kr
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This thought-provoking book critically analyses the interaction of innovation, technology and corporate law. It highlights the impact of technology, including artificial intelligence and distributed ledger technology, on corporate governance and form, examining the extent to which technology may …
Sustainable Public Procurement of Infrastructure and Human Rights
Beyond Building Green
Av Olga Martin-Ortega, Laura Treviño-Lozano
Inbunden, 2023
1780 kr
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This innovative book addresses the links between sustainability and human rights in the context of infrastructure projects and uncovers the human rights gap in every stage of public procurement processes to deliver on infrastructure assets or services.Bringing together contributions from leading …
Human Rights and Capitalism
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Globalisation
Inbunden, 2006
2485 kr
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Human Rights and Capitalism brings together two important facets of the globalisation debate and examines the complex relationship between human rights, property rights and capitalist economies. Human rights issues have become increasingly important in this debate and their place as harbingers of …
Company Law in the New Europe
The EU Acquis, Comparative Methodology and Model Law
Av Janet Dine, Marios Koutsias m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
2223 kr
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This book provides comprehensive analysis of the recent enlargement of the EU, shedding light on the rationale behind the EU's decisions to enlarge, examining the side effects these choices have on a range of EU policies and particularly on the effect of the Acquis on candidate countries. Emphasis …
National Corporate Law in a Globalised Market
The UK Experience in Perspective
Av David Milman
Inbunden, 2009
1685 kr
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In this timely book, David Milman considers how UK corporate law has been affected by the forces of globalisation, arguing that this is not a new development, but rather is part of an historical continuum. He examines corporate law regulatory strategy in general, treatment of foreign shareholders …
Nature of Corporate Governance
The Significance of National Cultural Identity
Av Janet Dine, Marios Koutsias
Inbunden, 2013
2160 kr
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This book presents a thoughtful inquiry into the nature and rationale of corporate governance. The authors address fundamental questions including; What is the balance between ownership and control?; For whose interests should the company be run?; What is the institutional balance between …
EU Corporate Law and EU Company Tax Law
Av Luca Cerioni
Inbunden, 2007
1796 kr
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With the European Union striving to become the world's most competitive economy, the developments in the two closely interconnected areas of European corporate law and European company tax law are of utmost importance. This book focuses on the crucial issues raised by these developments, on their …
Corporate Rescue Law – An Anglo-American Perspective
Inbunden, 2008
2049 kr
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This book offers an unprecedented and detailed comparative critique of Anglo-American corporate bankruptcy law. It challenges the standard characterisation that US law in the sphere of corporate bankruptcy is 'pro-debtor' and UK law is 'pro-creditor', and suggests that the traditional thesis is, at …
Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility
Av Nina Boeger, Rachel Murray m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1975 kr
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This book examines the concepts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of globalisation and its many challenges, focusing on different legal perspectives that arise. Particular problems presented include the varied definitions of CSR and the related dilemmas of opting for a …
Corporate Governance and China’s H-Share Market
Inbunden, 2008
2311 kr
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Using detailed case studies of the first nine mainland Chinese companies to be listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange (1993-94), Alice de Jonge examines the evolution of corporate governance law and culture in China's H-share market. A story emerges not of tensions between ideas of corporate …
Corporate Governance in the 21st Century
Japan’s Gradual Transformation
Av Luke Nottage, Leon Wolff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
2187 kr
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The 'lost decade' of economic stagnation in Japan during the 1990s has become a 'found decade' for regulatory and institutional reform. Nowhere is this more evident than in corporate law. In 2005, for example, a spate of reforms to the Commercial Code culminated in the new Company Act, a statute …
Corporate Objective
Av Andrew Keay
Inbunden, 2011
2097 kr
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The Corporate Objective addresses a question that has been subject to much debate: what should be the objective of public corporations? It examines the two dominant theories that address this issue, the shareholder primacy and stakeholder theories, and finds that both have serious shortcomings. he …
Transnational Corporations and International Law
Accountability in the Global Business Environment
Inbunden, 2011
1669 kr
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Transnational Corporations and International Law provides a comprehensive overview of existing laws and principles aimed at regulating the international behavior of transnational corporations (TNCs). Alice de Jonge highlights the inadequacies and possibilities inherent in the current regulatory …
Secured Credit and the Harmonisation of Law
The UNCITRAL Experience
Inbunden, 2011
1653 kr
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This is a discerning analysis of international harmonization efforts for secured credit law and examines the role of globalization and finance capital in shaping such efforts.Gerard McCormack reveals how an 'efficient' law is often seen to increase the availability, and lower the cost, of credit, …
Enhancing Firm Sustainability Through Governance
The Relational Corporate Governance Approach
Inbunden, 2015
2648 kr
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This important book presents a fresh perspective on corporate governance and how the relationship between governance mechanisms, processes and variables should be understood through a new unifying theory: the relational corporate governance approach. The approach acts as a tool for analysing the …
Multinational Enterprises and Tort Liabilities
An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Examination
Inbunden, 2008
2112 kr
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This book conducts an interdisciplinary and comparative examination of tort liabilities of multinational enterprises (MNEs). It examines the social, economic, managerial and legal characteristics of MNEs and compares the findings of this examination to the current understanding of MNEs in the way …
