Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Commercial - General

Corporate scandals due to bad accounting happen far too frequently for a system of corporate governance to be deemed effective. This book tells why the safeguards designed to prevent bad accounting so often fail. By studying why the auditors and members of a board of directors regularly fail to deliver the truth about a company's financial state of affairs, this provocative book explores a serious problem in the system of reporting financial information.

This book is unique in that it draws together various strands of the literature on corporate governance, accounting, law, cognitive...

Cases with a foreign element are of great importance in practical company law. Along with questions of German, European and foreign company law they also raise questions concerning conflict of laws provisions, company law relating to groups and capital market law. There is therefore a great demand for information, but providing advice in accordance with interests is particularly difficult. The fundamental cross-section representation in Staudinger provides practitioners and scholars equally grounded access to all questions of international company and corporate law.

Compiled by leading international trade law practitioners and academics from across the globe, this volume provides legal and business communities with information, knowledge and an understanding of recent developments in international trade, business and international commercial arbitration. Scholarly in style, this volume contributes to the discussions surrounding the developments whilst being informative and of practical use to the business community and lawyers.

Covering the areas of international trade and business law, arbitration law, foreign law and comparative law, with...

Walk down any main street in Paris or New York and there is evidence of the counterfeit goods trade. This is the first book to fully examine the size of the counterfeit market. It describes counterfeit trade from a global and strategic business perspective.

Urheberrechte sollen die Rechte des Urhebers und die Weiterverarbeitungsrechte schutzen. Durch die technische Entwicklung sinken die Kosten fur Kopie und Zugriff auf die Werke sowie fur ihre Verteilung und Speicherung, wahrend die Kosten zur Durchsetzung von Rechten z. T. sogar gestiegen sind. Das bietet Spielraume fur die unentgeltliche und auch unentdeckte Nutzung. Es entsteht die Gefahr, dass Urheber und Vermarkter ihre okonomischen Grundlagen verlieren, mit negativen Folgen fur Kreativitat und Vermarktung. Zum anderen gibt es technisch-organisatorische Ansatze, die "Digital Rights...

Foreign investors enjoy the protection of a vast network of international investment agreements (IIAs) supplemented by the general rules of international law. Under IIAs, states must accord foreign investors substantive standards of promotion and protection. In addition, IIAs provide an investor-state arbitration mechanism that allows foreign investors to enforce these standards against host states. In response to disputes arising under the IIA regime, since the early 1990s a significant body of arbitral jurisprudence has developed. This book provides a comprehensive and systematic...

Challenges facing central bankers are expertly examined and analyzed. The book explores monetary policy and financial crisis as well as insolvency, collective action clauses, international mediation, and management of central banks. The author has worked as an economist at the Monetary and Economic Department of the Bank for International Settlements and as an international mediator for the Secretariat of the G10 Ministers and Governors.