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Corporate Ownership and Control
  • Language: en

Corporate Ownership and Control

  • Categories: Law

Much discussion on corporate governance assumes companies are owned and controlled separately, yet this is not the norm worldwide. This book explores the foundations of separation in UK companies, asking how the company came to prominence and why and how the UK stock market came to be dominated by institutional shareholders.

Company Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 727

Company Law

In the US the use of economics has had a dramatic influence on the study of corporate law. This book is the first in the UK to use economics to discuss company law issues. Company Law: Theory, Structure and Operation addresses a series of important questions which have not been analysed in detail elsewhere

Corporate Ownership and Control
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 423

Corporate Ownership and Control

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Much discussion on corporate governance assumes companies are owned and controlled separately, yet this is not the norm worldwide. This book explores the foundations of separation in UK companies, asking how the company came to prominence and why and how the UK stock market came to be dominated by institutional shareholders.

The Public Company Transformed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

The Public Company Transformed

  • Categories: Law

For decades, the public company has played a dominant role in the American economy. Since the middle of the 20th century, the nature of the public company has changed considerably. The transformation has been a fascinating one, marked by scandals, political controversy, wide swings in investor and public sentiment, mismanagement, entrepreneurial verve, noisy corporate "raiders" and various other larger-than-life personalities. Nevertheless, amidst a voluminous literature on corporations, a systematic historical analysis of the changes that have occurred is lacking. The Public Company Transformed correspondingly analyzes how the public company has been recast from the mid-20th century through...

Tax and Corporate Governance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 423

Tax and Corporate Governance

Academic research shows that well-known principal-agent and capital market problems are strongly influenced by tax considerations. Against this background, this volume is the first to present a fully-fledged overview of the interdependence of tax and corporate governance. Not only the basic political, legal and economic questions but also major topics like income measurement, shareholding structures, corporate social responsibility and tax shelter disclosure are covered.

The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 830

The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance

Corporate governance remains a central area of concern to business and society, and this Handbook constitutes the definitive source of academic research on this topic, synthesizing international studies from economics, strategy, international business, organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, business ethics, accounting, finance, and law.

Research Handbook on Corporate Purpose and Personhood
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

Research Handbook on Corporate Purpose and Personhood

  • Categories: Law

This insightful Research Handbook contributes to the theoretical and practical understanding of corporate purpose and personhood, which has become the central debate of corporate law. It provides cutting-edge thoughts on the role of corporations in society and the nature of their rights and responsibilities.

Research Handbook on the History of Corporate and Company Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 653

Research Handbook on the History of Corporate and Company Law

  • Categories: Law

Understanding the corporation means understanding its legal framework, but until recently the origins and evolution of corporate law have received relatively little attention. The topical chapters featured in this Research Handbook, contributed by leading scholars from around the world, examine the historical development of corporation and business organization law in the Americas, Europe, and Asia from the ancient world to modern times, providing an invaluable resource for both further historical research and scholars seeking the origins of present-day issues.

Enforcement of Corporate and Securities Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 553

Enforcement of Corporate and Securities Law

  • Categories: Law

This book assembles the world's most authoritative specialists for a comparative analysis of the enforcement of corporate and securities laws in thirteen national jurisdictions. It examines the enforcement of corporate and securities laws across the globe and across different legal and political systems from an in-depth comparative perspective.

Constitutional Crowdsourcing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

Constitutional Crowdsourcing

  • Categories: Law

Conceptualising the new phenomenon of constitutional crowdsourcing, this incisive book examines democratic legitimacy, participation, and decision-making in constitutions and constitutionalism. It analyses how the wider population can be given a voice in constitution-making and in constitutional interpretation and control, thus promoting the exercise of original and derived constituent power.