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The enlightened shareholder value principle and corporate governance / Andrew Keay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keay, Andrew R., author.
- Series:
- Routledge Research in Corporate Law
- Routledge research in corporate law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. Companies Act 2006.
- Great Britain.
- Corporate governance--Law and legislation--Great Britain.
- Corporate governance.
- Directors of corporations--Legal status, laws, etc--Great Britain.
- Directors of corporations.
- Stockholder wealth--Great Britain.
- Stockholder wealth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The enlightened shareholder value principle (ESV) was formulated during the comprehensive review of UK company law by the Company Law Steering Group in the late 1990s and early 2000's and requires directors of companies to act in the collective best interests of shareholders. The principle was taken up by the then UK Government and is now embedded in the Companies Act 2006. The emergence of the principle constitutes an important development in corporate governance, particularly in determining what directors must consider when managing the affairs of their companies.This book e
- Contents:
- Front Cover; The Enlightened Shareholder Value Principle and Corporate Governance; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction and background; 2. The theoretical background; 3. The development of the enlightened shareholder value principle; 4. The duty to promote the success of the company: an analysisof section 172 of the Companies Act 2006; 5. The Business Review: an analysis of section 417 of the Companies Act 2006; 6. Constituency statutes; 7. An evaluation of enlightened shareholder value and its impact; 8. The future; 9. Epilogue; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-25163-4
- 1-283-60657-7
- 9786613919021
- 1-136-25164-2
- 0-203-10492-7
- 9780203104927
- OCLC:
- 811505938
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