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Problems Of Liability Of Controllers Of Corporations To Creditors In Uzbek Law, Utkirbek Kholmirzaev
Problems Of Liability Of Controllers Of Corporations To Creditors In Uzbek Law, Utkirbek Kholmirzaev
Review of law sciences
This article discusses the distribution of liability risks of shareholderss and other controlling persons on corporate liabilities. Given the analysis of ex post and ex ante model of control over distribution of risks of civil turnover participants in common law and continental legal traditions. Also, considered problems of shareholders' liability on obligations of corporations in the Republic of Uzbekistan. A shareholder shall be held liable on a subsidiary basis for the obligations of the legal entity in case of insolvency, as a result of the member's wrongful acts. However, some mechanisms of such liability do not allow to resolve the …
The Effects Of Shareholder Primacy, Publicness, And "Privateness" On Corporate Cultures, Donald C. Langevoort
The Effects Of Shareholder Primacy, Publicness, And "Privateness" On Corporate Cultures, Donald C. Langevoort
Seattle University Law Review
My conundrum question is this: suppose managerialism triumphed in the governance wars so as to regain its desired level of autonomy from shareholder pressures for boards and managers—would we then expect to see a cultural shift inside corporations toward greater honesty and civil engagement, and if so, why? A helpful diagnostic question is to ask how managers currently construe shareholder and market primacy. Have they internalized it as a value or do they instead resent the demands? My argument here leans more toward resentment, though my contribution is more about how to develop a credible hypothesis than how to prove …
In The Name Of Shareholder Value: Origin Myths Of Corporations And Their Ongoing Implications, Karen Ho
In The Name Of Shareholder Value: Origin Myths Of Corporations And Their Ongoing Implications, Karen Ho
Seattle University Law Review
Part I of this Article analyzes some of the contemporary critiques of, and debates around, shareholder value in order to illustrate why many of these contestations demonstrate underlying gaps or problematic assertions in the history and politics of shareholder value, especially if they are delimited by the narrow legal frames and neoliberal assumptions of corporations. It also provides the context necessary to explicate and ground why shareholder primacy and ownership assumptions are historically and legally flawed, and how financial values and assumptions continue to be championed (and financial power elided), despite the recent implosions of shareholder value. Part II expands …
De Facto Shareholder Primacy, Jeff Schwartz