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The Political Economy of the Company.
Theoretical writing on the company and company law has been dominated in recent years by economics. This collection of essays by a distinguished team of authors drawn from a variety of disciplines seeks to build on the insights of this economic analysis and broaden understanding by examining the com...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Half Title Page; Title Page; Title verso; Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction: The Political Economy of the Company; 2. The Politics of the Company; THE PUBLIC INTEREST; THE MORAL BASIS OF THE COMPANY; LIMITED LIABILITY; OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL; POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE COMPANY; SHARES AND STAKES; CONCLUSION; 3. The Labour Party and the Company; LABOUR THINKING ON THE COMPANY; COMPANY LAW REFORM IN THE 1920S AND 1930S; THE COHEN COMMITTEE; THE JENKINS COMMITTEE; INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY; THE BULLOCK COMMITTEE; CONCLUSION; 4. The Public Interest and the Company in Germany.
- INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARYTHE PUBLIC INTEREST AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL; REUNIFICATION, ECONOMIC RENEWAL AND THE SHAREHOLDER; CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY; CONCLUSIONS; 5. Worker Rights and Responsibilities in the Modern Company; 6. The Conceptual Foundations of the Company: a Pluralist Approach; JUSTIFICATIONS FOR SHAREHOLDER EXCLUSIVITY; THE PLURALIST CRITIQUE; THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE PLURALIST MODEL; CONCLUSION; 7. Defending the Rentier: Corporate Theory and the Reprivatisation of the Public Company; LOCATING CORPORATIONS ON THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE AXIS.
- FROM OWNING ASSETS TO OWNING COMPANIES: THE RISE OF ENTITY THEORYRADICAL ENTITY THEORY AND THE QUESTION OF CORPORATE OWNERSHIP; HENRY MANNE AND THE REPRIVATISATION OF THE CORPORATION; GOVERNANCE AND THE GROWING POWER OF FINANCE; A PRIORI EFFICIENCY AND THE CONTRACTUALISATION OF THE CORPORATION; AGENCY THEORY AND THE PROBLEM OF OWNERSHIP; FROM THE MYTH OF OWNERSHIP TO THE MYTH OF EFFICIENCY: PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE DIVIDE; 8. Corporate Governance in a Political Climate: The Impact of Public Policy Regimes on Corporate Governance in the United Kingdom; INTRODUCTION.
- LONG-RUN ISSUES IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN THE UNITED KINGDOMFEARS, THREATS AND PHOBIAS; TAKE-OVERS AND MERGERS; THE STAKEHOLDER FIRM: WHAT IS REALLY "NEW" ABOUT "NEW" LABOUR?; CONCLUSION; 9. Institutional Investors: What are their Responsibilities as Shareholders?; INTRODUCTION; WHY FOCUS ON INSTITUTIONS' LEGAL OBLIGATIONS?; THE STRUCTURE OF INSTITUTIONAL SHARE OWNERSHIP; INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS' LEGAL OBLIGATIONS; REGULATORY OPTIONS; SELF-HELP; CONCLUSION; 10. Evolution and Policy in Company Law: The Non-Executive Director; INTRODUCTION.
- REASONS FOR THE LIMITED EVOLUTION OF BOARD-LEVEL MONITORINGTHE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MONITORING BOARD; THE BOARD AND MONITORING TODAY: A CASE FOR FURTHER INTERVENTION?; CONCLUSION; 11. Comparative Corporate Governance: Sociological Perspectives; INTRODUCTION; OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL: A REEXAMINATION; FIRMS AS HIERARCHIES: EMPLOYEES IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; THE SOCIAL WORLD OF TOP MANAGERS; NATIONAL CORPORATE GOVERNANCE "MODELS"?; CONCLUSION; Index.