Shareholder Primacy and Corporate Governance: Legal Aspects, Practices and Future Directions

ISBN-13: 9780415536264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 272 str.

Shuangge Wen

Opis

Taking account of astonishing developments in the field and realising the current need for changes in governance, this book offers a thorough exploration of the origins, recent changes and future development of the corporate objective-shareholder primacy-in the UK context. Legal and theoretical aspects are examined so as to provide a comprehensive and critical account of the practices reflecting shareholder primacy in the UK.

Spis treści

Introduction   Part 1: The Basis Of Shareholder Primacy in the UK  1. Corporate Governance: Concepts and Mechanisms  2. The Corporate Objective Mapped in Theories and Legal Practices I: Shareholder Primacy through the Economic Lens  3. The Corporate Objective Mapped in Theories and Legal Practices II: The Feasibility of the UK Moving Towards the Stakeholder End  Part 2: Forces Driving UK Corporate Governance Reforms   4. The Force of EU Harmonisation Action and its Effect in Transforming the UK Shareholder  Part 3: Recent Changes in UK Company Law and Corporate Governance  5. Recent Changes in UK Company Law and Corporate Governance  Part 4: Future Predictions   6. Exploring the Rationale of Sharehole Primacy in the UK  7. The Way Forward in the Wake of the Crisis  Conclusion

O autorze

Shuangge Wen is currently working as Professor in Law at Jilin University, and also lecturing at Swansea Law School.