Routledge handbook of corporate law / / edited by Roman Tomasic

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910150339103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2016]; ©2017
• ISBN: 1-315-76701-5; 1-317-66216-4
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (373 pages)
• Collana: Routledge Handbooks
• Disciplina: 346/.066
• Soggetti: Corporation law; Business enterprises - Law and legislation; Corporate governance - Law and legislation; Corporate veil
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: chapter Introduction: corporate law in transition / Roman Tomasic -- part PART I Thinking about corporate law -- chapter 1 The methods of comparative corporate law / Mathias M Siems -- chapter 2 The de-privatisation of Anglo–American corporate law? / Marc T Moore -- chapter 3 What is corporate law? An Australian perspective / Stephen Bottomley -- chapter 4 How corporate law matters: the debate as to the inter-relationship between legal origin and economic performance -- part PART II Corporate law principles and governance -- chapter 5 Independence and diversity in board composition / Sally Wheeler -- chapter 6 The fiduciary duties of institutional investors / Folarin Akinbami -- chapter 7 Corporate law and the phoenix company / Helen Anderson -- chapter 8 Trust is good but control is better? A critical introduction to remuneration governance in Germany and the United Kingdom -- chapter 9 State capitalism and corporate law: the governance of state-owned enterprises in China -- chapter 10 The limits of institutional shareholder activism in China and the United Kingdom: some comparisons -- part PART III Some cross-cultural comparisons -- chapter 11 Corporate governance in China: the law and ; its political logic / Jiangyu Wang -- chapter 12 Contemporary company law reforms in India / Harpreet Kaur -- chapter 13 Company law and corporate governance in Malaysia: harmonisation of Shariah and the common law -- chapter 14 Chinese family companies in Hong Kong: governance, predicaments and regulatory challenges -- chapter 15 Piercing the corporate veil in Latin America / Jose Maria Lezcano Navarro.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Routledge Handbook of Corporate Law provides an accessible overview of current research in the field, from an international and comparative perspective.