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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788719703321

Titolo

Corporate governance and directors' liabilities : legal, economic, and sociological analyses on corporate social responsibility / / edited by Klaus J. Hopt, Gunther Teubner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : W. de Gruyter, , 1985

ISBN

3-11-087111-4

Edizione

[Reprint 2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (476 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Series A--Law = Droit ; ; 1

Classificazione

PE 380

Altri autori (Persone)

HoptKlaus J. <1940->

TeubnerGunther

Disciplina

346/.066

Soggetti

Corporation law

Directors of corporations - Legal status, laws, etc

Industries - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Chapter I. Theoretical Framework and Legal Foundations -- The Legal Development of Corporate Responsibility / LORD WEDDERBURN OF CHARLTON -- The Economic Context of Corporate Social Responsibility / MASHAW, JERRY L. -- Responsibility in Corporate Action: A Sociologist's View / COLEMAN, JAMES S. -- Chapter II. Strategies of Institutionalizing Corporate Social Responsibility -- Corporate Social Responsibility: Interests and Goals / KRAUSE, DETLEF -- Public Interest Representation: Economic and Social Policy Inside the Enterprise / STONE, CRISTOPHER D . -- Chapter III. Directors' Duties and Liabilities -- Corporate Fiduciary Duties and Their Beneficiaries / TEUBNER, GUNTHER -- The Economic Functions of Corporate Liability / KRAAKMAN, REINIER -- Board Members' Liability for Damages / GOMARD, BERNHARD -- The Private Law Enforcement of Directors' Duties / BOYLE, ANTHONY J . -- Chapter IV. Disclosure and Social Reporting -- Self-Dealing and Use of Corporate Opportunity and Information: Regulating Directors' Conflicts of Interest / HOPT, KLAUS J . -- Disclosure as Preventive Enforcement / LOSS, LOUIS -- Disclosure, Insider Information and Capital Market Functions / SCHMIDT, HARTMUT -- Corporate Social Reporting and Auditing: Theory and Practice /



DIERKES, MEINOLF -- Rescue Operations in Business Crises / STEIN, JOHANN HEINRICH V. -- Chapter V. Outside Representation on the Boards: Conflicts of Interest -- The Enterprise as a Political System / STEINMANN, HORST -- Dual Loyalty of Labor Representatives / KÜBLER, FRIEDRICH -- Annex -- Biographical Sketches of the Authors -- Table of Cases -- Index -- Backmatter