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European Corporate Law And National Divergences: The Case Of Takeover Regulation, Peer Zumbansen Aug 2016

European Corporate Law And National Divergences: The Case Of Takeover Regulation, Peer Zumbansen

Peer Zumbansen

In this book review, Peer Zumbansen offers a review of Joseph A. McCahery's, Corporate Governance Regimes: Convergence and Diversity, Christin M. Forstinger's, Takeover Law in the EU and the USA: A Comparative Analysis, and Jennifer Payne's, Takeovers in English and German Law.


Rethinking The Nature Of The Firm: The Corporation As A Governance Object, Peer Zumbansen Aug 2016

Rethinking The Nature Of The Firm: The Corporation As A Governance Object, Peer Zumbansen

Peer Zumbansen

This Article attempts to bridge two discourses—corporate governance and contract governance. Regarding the latter, a group of scholars has recently set out to develop a more comprehensive research agenda to explore the governance dimensions of contractual relations, highlighting the potential of contract theory to develop a more encompassing theory of social and economic transactions. While a renewed interest in the contribution of economic theory for a concept of contract governance drives one dimension of this research, another part of this undertaking has been to move contract theory closer to theories of social organization. Here, these scholars emphasize the “social” or …