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It's Time To Federalize Corporate Charters, Kent Greenfield
It's Time To Federalize Corporate Charters, Kent Greenfield
Kent Greenfield
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September 11 And The End Of History For Corporate Law, Kent Greenfield
September 11 And The End Of History For Corporate Law, Kent Greenfield
Kent Greenfield
Using the tragic events of September 11th as case study; this Essay critiques a prominent, recent article that suggests the ideology of shareholder primacy has become so dominant that the "end of history" is at hand for corporate law. The author suggests that a dedication to shareholder primacy helped create the context in which the events of September 11th could occur, by making the airlines less attentive to security concerns that did not affect the airline companies' stock prices. Shareholder primacy makes corporations more likely to externalize the costs of the firms' decisions onto constituencies other than shareholders, and such …
Using Behavioral Economics To Show The Power And Efficiency Of Corporate Law As Regulatory Tool, Kent Greenfield
Using Behavioral Economics To Show The Power And Efficiency Of Corporate Law As Regulatory Tool, Kent Greenfield
Kent Greenfield
Prepared for the Daniel J. Dykstra Corporate Governance Symposium at University of California, Davis, in February 2001, this article argues that changes in corporate governance in the United States - specifically the relaxation of the profit maximization norm, the broadening of management's fiduciary duties to include workers, and the inclusion of worker representatives on boards of directors - are likely to be efficient means of reaching certain preferred policy outcomes, such as an increase in the wages of working people and a decrease in income inequality. Instead of being seen as "private law," corporate law should be regarded as a …
La Acción Individual De Responsabilidad Contra Los Administradores Sociales, Jesús Alfaro Águila-Real
La Acción Individual De Responsabilidad Contra Los Administradores Sociales, Jesús Alfaro Águila-Real
Jesús Alfaro Águila-Real
La exposición está dedicada al estudio de la llamada acción individual de responsabilidad de los administradores sociales, esto es, a los casos en los que un administrador viene obligado a indemnizar a un tercero (cocontratante de la sociedad, socio de la sociedad o acreedor extracontractual de la sociedad) por los daños que este haya sufrido como consecuencia de la actuación del administrador en el ejercicio de sus funciones al frente de la gestión social. Los problemas que estos casos plantean se analizan, habitualmente, en el marco del artículo 135 LSA que, situado inmediatamente después de la regulación de la responsabilidad …
Enron And The Dark Side Of Shareholder Value, William W. Bratton
Enron And The Dark Side Of Shareholder Value, William W. Bratton
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