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The Journal of Law and Economics, 1983
ONE of the themes of The Modern Corporation and Private Property is that managers use the machinery of voting to seize control of corporations. Managers name the slates of candidates and control the agents who cast proxy ballots. Shareholders are apathetic in the best of times because it is so unlikely that their votes would make a difference, but ...
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ONE of the themes of The Modern Corporation and Private Property is that managers use the machinery of voting to seize control of corporations. Managers name the slates of candidates and control the agents who cast proxy ballots. Shareholders are apathetic in the best of times because it is so unlikely that their votes would make a difference, but ...
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2007
This chapter surveys the theoretical and empirical research on the main mechanisms of corporate law and governance, discusses the main legal and regulatory institutions in different countries, and examines the comparative governance literature. Corporate governance is concerned with the reconciliation of conflicts of interest between various corporate ...
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This chapter surveys the theoretical and empirical research on the main mechanisms of corporate law and governance, discusses the main legal and regulatory institutions in different countries, and examines the comparative governance literature. Corporate governance is concerned with the reconciliation of conflicts of interest between various corporate ...
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The Journal of Legal Studies, 2001
A strong theory has emerged that the quality of corporate law primarily determines whether ownership and control separate, particularly to the extent law stymies controllers' self-dealing transactions that damage minority stockholders. But in several rich nations, shareholders seem satisfactorily protected, but separation is narrow.
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A strong theory has emerged that the quality of corporate law primarily determines whether ownership and control separate, particularly to the extent law stymies controllers' self-dealing transactions that damage minority stockholders. But in several rich nations, shareholders seem satisfactorily protected, but separation is narrow.
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2017
This article is the first chapter of the second edition of The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach, by Reinier Kraakman, John Armour, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Henry Hansmann, Gerard Hertig, Klaus Hopt, Hideki Kanda and Edward Rock (Oxford University Press, 2009).
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This article is the first chapter of the second edition of The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach, by Reinier Kraakman, John Armour, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Henry Hansmann, Gerard Hertig, Klaus Hopt, Hideki Kanda and Edward Rock (Oxford University Press, 2009).
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Defining the Corporation and Corporate Law
2022Abstract This chapter opens with a brief exploration of general challenges of legal taxonomy, focusing on the tension between internal and external views of law and the dynamic relationship between legal doctrine and social context, and then assesses three prevailing approaches to defining the domain of corporate law.
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Corporate Law and Corporate Governance
Industrial and Corporate Change, 1996Abstract Corporate law and corporate governance are flip sides of the same coin. The fundamental task of corporate law is to provide a framework of goverance institutions that mitigate the agency problem arising from the separation of ownership and control in the modern corporation-that the interests of the managers who control ...
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2019
The manual is a systematic presentation of the main institutions of corporate law. The principles of corporate law, the classification of corporate relations, the sources of corporate law are considered. Special attention is paid to the analysis of corporate legal entities and their system of governing bodies. For a better mastery of the material, each
Evgeniy Vengerovskiy +3 more
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The manual is a systematic presentation of the main institutions of corporate law. The principles of corporate law, the classification of corporate relations, the sources of corporate law are considered. Special attention is paid to the analysis of corporate legal entities and their system of governing bodies. For a better mastery of the material, each
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2019
Abstract This chapter discusses the development of corporate law in the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1800, corporation law was a torpid backwater of law, mostly a matter of municipalities, charities, and churches. Only a bridge or two, a handful of manufacturing enterprises, a few banks, a few insurance companies, disturbed ...
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Abstract This chapter discusses the development of corporate law in the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1800, corporation law was a torpid backwater of law, mostly a matter of municipalities, charities, and churches. Only a bridge or two, a handful of manufacturing enterprises, a few banks, a few insurance companies, disturbed ...
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Development of Corporate Law: New Corporate Law Structures
2016Poredbenopravno se analiziraju uvjeti osnivanja za pojedine oblike društava u Nizozemskoj, Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu, Francuskoj i Novom Zelandu, ali i prijedlog UNCITRAL radne skupine o pravu društava.
Petrović, Siniša, Jakšić, Tomislav
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