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Creating A Stakeholder Democracy Under Existing Corporate Law, Justin Blount Dec 2015

Creating A Stakeholder Democracy Under Existing Corporate Law, Justin Blount

Faculty Publications

Much of the current debate in corporate governance is framed in terms of stakeholder versus shareholder forms of corporate governance. While one would find little debate that stakeholders’ interests are important to any business, there is substantial debate regarding whether any stakeholder besides shareholders should have a formal role in corporate governance. What has been largely ignored in this debate is the issue of private ordering: since corporate law is largely enabling rather than mandatory, can stakeholder governance structures be voluntarily created within the current shareholder-centric default corporate law structure? This article argues that this is clearly the case, sets …

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Homeland Self Storage Management, Llc, Et Al., Various Discovery Motions, John J. Goger Dec 2015

Homeland Self Storage Management, Llc, Et Al., Various Discovery Motions, John J. Goger

Georgia Business Court Opinions

No abstract provided.

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Keeping Sabbath During The Week, Michael E. Cafferky Dec 2015

Keeping Sabbath During The Week, Michael E. Cafferky

Faculty Works

Would Sabbath-keeping be less meaningful if, on the other six days, our work disrupted human well-being or otherwise failed to honor the Sabbath Giver? This article is an abridged version of the longer peer-reviewed article "Sabbath: The Theological Roots of Sustainable Development" published in the Journal of Biblical Integration in Business available at http://cbfa-jbib.org/index.php/jbib/article/view/108/108 .

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Workplace Deviance And Recession, Aniruddha Bagchi, Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay Nov 2015

Workplace Deviance And Recession, Aniruddha Bagchi, Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay

Faculty and Research Publications

We examine the relationship between the incidence of workplace deviance (on-the-job crime) and the state of the economy. A worker's probability of future employment depends on whether she has been deviant as well as on the availability of jobs. Using a two period model we show that the net impact on deviant behavior to changes in unemployment can go either way depending upon the nature of the equilibrium. Two kinds of equilibria are possible. In one, a non-deviant's probability of being employed increases as expected market conditions improve which lowers the incentive to be a deviant. In contrast, in the …

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Homeland Self Storage Management, Llc, Et Ai., Order On Emergency Motion For Order To Show Cause Why Causes Of Action Should Not Be Stricken, John J. Goger Nov 2015

Homeland Self Storage Management, Llc, Et Ai., Order On Emergency Motion For Order To Show Cause Why Causes Of Action Should Not Be Stricken, John J. Goger

Georgia Business Court Opinions

No abstract provided.

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Let's Make A Deal! Business Succession Planning, John M. Olivieri, Stefan F. Tucker Nov 2015

Let's Make A Deal! Business Succession Planning, John M. Olivieri, Stefan F. Tucker

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

No abstract provided.

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Locked In: The Competitive Disadvantage Of Citizen Shareholders, Anne M. Tucker Nov 2015

Locked In: The Competitive Disadvantage Of Citizen Shareholders, Anne M. Tucker

Faculty Publications By Year

In this Essay, I challenge the conventional corporate law wisdom that unhappy mutual fund investors paying high fees don’t need litigation or regulation to protect their interests because they should simply exit a fund and reinvest elsewhere. The exit solution, advanced by Professors John Morley and Quinn Curtis in Taking Exit Rights Seriously provided an elegantly simply solution to the problem of unhappy indirect investors (e.g., mutual fund investors) given that they are often low-dollar, low-incentive, rationally-apathetic investors facing enormous information asymmetries and collective action problems. According to their view, competition produced by exit, or the threat of exit, is …

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Predictix, Llc, Order And Final Judgment On Business Valuation Proceeding Pursuant To O.C.G.A. § 14-11-1011, Elizabeth E. Long Nov 2015

Predictix, Llc, Order And Final Judgment On Business Valuation Proceeding Pursuant To O.C.G.A. § 14-11-1011, Elizabeth E. Long

Georgia Business Court Opinions

No abstract provided.

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Gaming The System: The Exemption Of Professional Sports Teams From The Fair Labor Standards Act, Charlotte S. Alexander, Nathaniel Grow Nov 2015

Gaming The System: The Exemption Of Professional Sports Teams From The Fair Labor Standards Act, Charlotte S. Alexander, Nathaniel Grow

Faculty Publications By Year

This article examines a little known exemption to the Fair Labor Standards Act relieving seasonal recreational or amusement employers from their obligation to pay the minimum wage and overtime. After evaluating the existing, confused case law surrounding the exemption, we propose a new, simplified framework for applying the provision. We then apply this framework to a recent wave of FLSA lawsuits brought by cheerleaders, minor league baseball players, and stadium workers against professional sports teams. The article concludes by considering the policy implications of exempting this class of employers from the FLSA's wage and hour requirements.

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Raser Technologies Order On Defendants' Motion To Temporarily Stay Proceedings Pending A Related U.S Supreme Court Decision, John J. Goger Oct 2015

Raser Technologies Order On Defendants' Motion To Temporarily Stay Proceedings Pending A Related U.S Supreme Court Decision, John J. Goger

Georgia Business Court Opinions

No abstract provided.

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Non-Party John W. Robinson Iii's Application For Protective Order, John J. Goger Oct 2015

Non-Party John W. Robinson Iii's Application For Protective Order, John J. Goger

Georgia Business Court Opinions

No abstract provided.

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Predictix, Llc, Order On Motion To Compel, Elizabeth E. Long Oct 2015

Predictix, Llc, Order On Motion To Compel, Elizabeth E. Long

Georgia Business Court Opinions

No abstract provided.

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Spinosa Order On Plaintiff's Motion To Compel Discovery, Alice D. Bonner Oct 2015

Spinosa Order On Plaintiff's Motion To Compel Discovery, Alice D. Bonner

Georgia Business Court Opinions

No abstract provided.

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Suntrust Banks, Inc., Et Al., Order On Motion For Partial Judgment On The Pleadings, Alice D. Bonner Oct 2015

Suntrust Banks, Inc., Et Al., Order On Motion For Partial Judgment On The Pleadings, Alice D. Bonner

Georgia Business Court Opinions

No abstract provided.

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Gamechange: Cord Cutters, Technology, And The Legalities Of The Race To Replace Cable, Brian J. Halsey, Julie D. Pfaff, Amy Hendrickson Oct 2015

Gamechange: Cord Cutters, Technology, And The Legalities Of The Race To Replace Cable, Brian J. Halsey, Julie D. Pfaff, Amy Hendrickson

Accounting Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Trends In Employment Outcomes Of Young Adults With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities, 2006-2013, John Butterworth, Alberto Migliore, Thinkwork! At The Institute For Community Inclusion At Umass Boston Oct 2015

Trends In Employment Outcomes Of Young Adults With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities, 2006-2013, John Butterworth, Alberto Migliore, Thinkwork! At The Institute For Community Inclusion At Umass Boston

All Institute for Community Inclusion Publications

This report summarizes the employment and economic outcomes for young adults with intellectual disabilities between 2006 and 2013 in the nation’s 50 states and the District of Columbia (DC). Data are reported separately for two age groups: 16 to 21 years old, and 22 to 30 years old. Data are from the American Community Survey (ACS), the Rehabilitation Services Administration 911 (RSA-911), and the National Core Indicators (NCI).

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Microlending In The Third World: Does It Work?, Caleb J. Childers Oct 2015

Microlending In The Third World: Does It Work?, Caleb J. Childers

Senior Honors Theses

Microlending programs have recently been touted as a way to increase business development, equality, and income in impoverished nation (Yunus & Weber, 2007; Idris & Agbim, 2015); this confidence, however, may be misplaced. Research from inside these Third World nations is challenging the traditional thinking about what helps the poor succeed in other countries and how we can help; these studies call into question the efficacy of microlending and similar programs (Idris & Agbim, 2015; Banerjee et al., 2014; Yang & Stanley, 2012). In this paper, the effects of microloans in the Third World on income growth will be accessed …

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Corporate Social Responsibility: The Myopic Barometer?, Christo Ferreira, David K. Ding, Udomsak Wongchoti Oct 2015

Corporate Social Responsibility: The Myopic Barometer?, Christo Ferreira, David K. Ding, Udomsak Wongchoti

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

No abstract provided.

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State Of Georgia Order On Defendants Alan Yeager And Aes Claims Partners, Llc's Motion To Stay Proceedings And Compel Arbitration, Melvin K. Westmoreland Sep 2015

State Of Georgia Order On Defendants Alan Yeager And Aes Claims Partners, Llc's Motion To Stay Proceedings And Compel Arbitration, Melvin K. Westmoreland

Georgia Business Court Opinions

No abstract provided.

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Section 4: Business Law, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Sep 2015

Section 4: Business Law, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

Supreme Court Preview

No abstract provided.

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Boiling The Ocean, Singapore Management University Sep 2015

Boiling The Ocean, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Social entrepreneur Durreen Shahnaz set out to change Social Entrepreneurship in Asia, which she likens to “boiling the ocean”; it is now at least lukewarm

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Vulnerability, Preventability, And Responsibility: Exploring Some Normative Implications Of The Human Condition, Daniel E. Wueste Sep 2015

Vulnerability, Preventability, And Responsibility: Exploring Some Normative Implications Of The Human Condition, Daniel E. Wueste

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented March 17, 2015. Papers presented for the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University.

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Era Of Big Data: Danger Of Descrimination, Andra Gumbus, Frances Grodzinsky Sep 2015

Era Of Big Data: Danger Of Descrimination, Andra Gumbus, Frances Grodzinsky

WCBT Faculty Publications

We live in a world of data collection where organizations and marketers know our income, our credit rating and history, our love life, race, ethnicity, religion, interests, travel history and plans, hobbies, health concerns, spending habits and millions of other data points about our private lives. This data, mined for our behaviors, habits, likes and dislikes, is referred to as the “creep factor” of big data [1]. It is estimated that data generated worldwide will be 1.3 zettabytes (ZB) by 2016. The rise of computational power plus cheaper and faster devices to capture, collect, store and process data, translates into …

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Does An Embedded Wind Turbine Reduce A Company’S Electricity Bill? Case Study Of A 300 Kw Wind Turbine In Ireland, Tony Kealy Sep 2015

Does An Embedded Wind Turbine Reduce A Company’S Electricity Bill? Case Study Of A 300 Kw Wind Turbine In Ireland, Tony Kealy

Articles

In recent years, a growing number of small-to-medium-enterprises are embracing wind turbine projects not only as part of their cost reduction strategy but also to actively play their part in the global fight against climate change. However, it would appear there are currently limited empirical studies carried out in this emerging industry. This case study analyses the cost effectiveness of one such wind turbine initiative by a company in the Republic of Ireland, who invested in a 300 kW embedded wind turbine project at the end of 2013. The research methodology which is primarily a case study analysis included comparing …

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Global Aerospace, Inc. Final Judgment And Order On Motions For Summary Judgment, Elizabeth E. Long Aug 2015

Global Aerospace, Inc. Final Judgment And Order On Motions For Summary Judgment, Elizabeth E. Long

Georgia Business Court Opinions

No abstract provided.

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The Importance Of Being Dismissive: The Efficiency Role Of Pleading Stage Evaluation Of Shareholder Litigation, Lawrence A. Hamermesh, Michael L. Wachter Aug 2015

The Importance Of Being Dismissive: The Efficiency Role Of Pleading Stage Evaluation Of Shareholder Litigation, Lawrence A. Hamermesh, Michael L. Wachter

All Faculty Scholarship

It has been claimed that the risk/reward dynamics of shareholder litigation have encouraged quick settlements with substantial attorneys’ fee awards but no payment to shareholders, regardless of the merits of the case. Fee-shifting charter and bylaw provisions may be too blunt a tool to control agency costs associated with excessive shareholder litigation, and are in any event now prohibited by Delaware statute. We claim, however, that active judicial supervision of public company shareholder litigation at an early stage reduces the costs of frivolous litigation to shareholders by separating meritorious from unmeritorious litigation before the full costs of discovery are incurred. …

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Behavioral Ethics, Behavioral Compliance, Donald C. Langevoort Jul 2015

Behavioral Ethics, Behavioral Compliance, Donald C. Langevoort

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The design of an effective legal compliance system for an organization fearing prosecution for white-collar crime or regulatory violations requires skill at predicting human behavior. It is entirely plausible to use the economist’s simplifying assumptions of rational choice and pecuniary self-interest in making these predictions. But the realism of these assumptions has been under attack for decades now, suggesting that we should at least consider more nuanced behavioral possibilities when designing and implementing compliance programs. The label “behavioral compliance” can be attached to the design and management of compliance that draws from this wider range of behavioral predictions about individual …

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Southern States Chemical Inc., Order On Motions For Summary Judgment, Alice D. Bonner Jul 2015

Southern States Chemical Inc., Order On Motions For Summary Judgment, Alice D. Bonner

Georgia Business Court Opinions

No abstract provided.

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Gerber Products Co. Order On Defendant's Motion To Dismiss, Alice D. Bonner Jul 2015

Gerber Products Co. Order On Defendant's Motion To Dismiss, Alice D. Bonner

Georgia Business Court Opinions

No abstract provided.

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Eden Order On Summary Judgment And Motion To Strike, Alice D. Bonner Jul 2015

Eden Order On Summary Judgment And Motion To Strike, Alice D. Bonner

Georgia Business Court Opinions

No abstract provided.

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