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Corporate Law, Codes of Conduct and Workers' Rights
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Colección: | Routledge Research in Corporate Law Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Overview of the book; Author biography; 1 Introduction; Background of the problem; Purpose of the study; Theoretical framework; Theory of the firm
- how does the corporation function?; Nexus of contracts; Definition of terms; Background; Shareholder primacy model; Stakeholder theory; Shareholder voice; Workers' rights; Anti-sweatshop movement and supply chain management; Hard law" versus "soft law"; Governance; The intersection of CSR and workers' rights; Ratcheting labour standards
- Reflexive labour lawSelf-regulation; Private regulation; Current Canadian scheme; Activists and targets; Bibliography for Chapter 1; 2 Codes of conduct; Shareholder-focused governance; The divergent paths of corporate law and labour law; Origins of the corporation and the corporate shield; Amendments to the CBCA; Shareholder primacy model; Corporations as citizens; Governance gap? Or governance gaping hole?; Empirical studies; How are codes implemented?; Codes
- Corporation A, Corporation B, and Corporation C; Corporation A; Corporation B; Corporation C
- Increasing labour standards on a worldwide levelModel code of conduct; Bibliography for Chapter 2; 3 Changes to corporate governance; Expansion of fiduciary duties; Summary of Peoples; Summary of BCE; The CBCA and directors' duties; New corporate forms of organization
- Benefit Corporations; Fiduciary duties; What comes after Peoples and BCE?; Ethical consumption; International regulation; Actual impact on the ground; Codes of conduct versus IFAs; Greenwashing, or failure to have actions that back up claims; Globalization and self-regulation; Being co-opted/selling out
- The corporation and developing countriesGovernance; Corporations as citizens; The future for workers' rights; Bibliography for Chapter 5; Index