Christopher Bruner

Corporate Governance in the Common-Law World

The Political Foundations of Shareholder Power

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents a new comparative theory to explain the divergence between governance systems of Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 615g
• ISBN-13: 9781107013292
• ISBN-10: 1107013291
• Artikelnr.: 37293619

Autorenporträt

Christopher M. Bruner is a J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. His teaching and scholarship focus on corporate law and securities regulation, including international and comparative dimensions of these subjects. Bruner's articles have appeared in a variety of law and policy journals. His comparative study of corporate governance in the United Kingdom and the United States, Power and Purpose in the 'Anglo-American' Corporation, won the 2010 Association of American Law Schools Scholarly Papers competition.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Shareholder Orientation in the Common-Law World: 1. Introduction
and overview; 2. Comparative theory and corporate governance; 3. The
corporate governance role of shareholders in common-law jurisdictions; Part
II. A Political Theory of Corporate Governance in the Common-Law World: 4.
Comparative theories of corporate governance; 5. Shareholders,
stakeholders, and social welfare policy; Part III. The Theory's Explanatory
Domain: 6. Stability, change, and the future of corporate governance in the
common-law world.