Comparative corporate governance : a functional and international analysis / edited by Andreas Fleckner and Klaus J. Hopt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fleckner, Andreas M., editor.

Hopt, Klaus J., 1940- editor.

Series:

International corporate law and financial market regulation.

International corporate law and financial market regulation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporate governance--Law and legislation.

Corporate governance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiii, 1141 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The business corporation is one of the greatest organizational inventions, but it creates risks both for shareholders and for third parties. To mitigate these risks, legislators, judges, and corporate lawyers have tried to learn from foreign experiences and adapt their regulatory regimes to them. In the last three decades, this approach has led to a stream of corporate and capital market law reforms unseen before. Corporate governance, the system by which companies are directed and controlled, is today a key topic for legislation, practice, and academia all over the world. Corporate scandals and financial crises have repeatedly highlighted the need to better understand the economic, social, political, and legal determinants of corporate governance in individual countries. Comparative Corporate Governance furthers this goal by bringing together current scholarship in law and economics with the expertise of local corporate governance specialists from twenty-three countries.

Contents:

Comparative corporate governance : the state of the art and international regulation / Klaus J. Hopt

Australia : the architecture of corporate governance / Jennifer G. Hill

China : corporate governance of business organizations / Junhai Liu and Knut B. Pissler

Taiwan : corporate governance of publicly held companies / Wen-Yeu Wang and Wang-Ruu Tseng

Japan : listed companies' corporate governance / Nobuo Nakamura

Austria : legal framework of corporate governance / Susanne Kalss

Belgium : the legal system of corporate governance / Alexia Autenne

Denmark : corporate governance in Denmark / Jan S. Christensen

Finland : corporate governance : nordic tradition with American spices / Jukka T. Mähönen

France : the permanent reform of corporate governance / Pierre-Henri Conac

Georgia : corporate governance of business corporations / Lado Chanturia and George Jugeli

Germany : internal and external corporate governance / Hanno Merkt

Hungary : corporate governance of listed companies / Péter J. Nikolicza

Luxembourg : corporate governance of listed companies / Isabelle Corbisier and Pierre-Henri Conac

Netherlands : corporate governance in the Netherlands / Jaron van Bekkum, Steven Hijink, Michael C. Schouten and Jaap W. Winter

Norway : corporate governance on the outskirts of the EU / Beate Sjåfjell and Cecilie Kjelland

Poland : corporate governance of joint stock companies / Stanislaw Soltysiński

Portugal : synopsis on corporate governance / Jorge M. Coutinho de Abreu

Spain : listed companies' governance / José A. García-Cruces González and Ignacio Moralejo Menéndez

Switzerland : the system of corporate governance / Peter V. Kunz

United Kingdom : the scope and dynamics of corporate governance regulation / Marc T. Moore

Argentina : corporate governance of private and public companies / Raúl A. Etcheverry and Rafael M. Manóvil

Brazil : new developments in corporate governance / Nelson L. Eizirik and Ana C. Weber

United States : corporate governance for publicly traded corporations / Arthur R. Pinto and Franklin A. Gevurtz.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-107-35761-6

1-107-23630-4

1-107-34905-2

1-107-34174-4

1-107-34799-8

1-107-34549-9

1-139-17737-0

1-107-34424-7

OCLC:

857491652