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The Emerging Personality Of The American Corporation, Cynthia Williams
The Emerging Personality Of The American Corporation, Cynthia Williams
Cynthia A. Williams
Reviewing Eric W. Orts, Business Persons: A Legal Theory of the Firm, and Robert E. Wright, Corporation Nation.
Corporate Compliance With The Law In The Era Of Efficiency, Cynthia A. Williams
Corporate Compliance With The Law In The Era Of Efficiency, Cynthia A. Williams
Cynthia A. Williams
No abstract provided.
The Global Reporting Initiative, Transnational Corporate Accountability, And Global Regulatory Counter-Currents, Cynthia A. Williams
The Global Reporting Initiative, Transnational Corporate Accountability, And Global Regulatory Counter-Currents, Cynthia A. Williams
Cynthia A. Williams
In this essay, the Author provides an overview in Part I of some initiatives to require or encourage companies to produce specific ESG data, authored both by governments and by private standard-setters. In Part II, one disclosure initiative in particular will be discussed as an example of a transnational legal order (TLO), as defined by Professors Shaffer and Halliday,13 and that is the Global Reporting Initiative, which has become the benchmark corporate social disclosure framework. Part III identifies a number of significant questions about our knowledge of the real power of information strategies to change corporate behavior, as the GRI …
Triumph Or Tragedy? The Curious Path Of Corporate Disclosure Reform In The U.K., Cynthia A. Williams, John M. Conley
Triumph Or Tragedy? The Curious Path Of Corporate Disclosure Reform In The U.K., Cynthia A. Williams, John M. Conley
Cynthia A. Williams
No abstract provided.
Assurance Services As A Substitute For Law In Global Commerce, Margaret M. Blair, Cynthia A. Williams, Li-Wen Lin
Assurance Services As A Substitute For Law In Global Commerce, Margaret M. Blair, Cynthia A. Williams, Li-Wen Lin
Cynthia A. Williams
In this article we examine the rapid emergence and expansion of a private-sector compliance and enforcement infrastructure that we believe may increasingly be providing a substitute for public and legal regulatory infrastructure in global commerce, especially in developing countries where rule of law is weak and court systems are absent or inadequate. This infrastructure is provided by a proliferation of performance codes and standards, and a rapidly-growing global army of privately-trained and authorized inspectors and certifiers that we call the "third-party assurance industry." The growth in the third party assurance business has been phenomenal in the last decade. The business …