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A Team Production Theory Of Bankruptcy Reorganization, Lynn M. Lopucki
A Team Production Theory Of Bankruptcy Reorganization, Lynn M. Lopucki
Vanderbilt Law Review
In the year before United Airlines filed for bankruptcy reorganization, the firm lost $3.2 billion. Fierce competition in the airline industry prevents United from stemming its losses solely through increases in revenues. Costs will have to be cut. The necessary expense reductions could come from reductions in employee pay and benefits, reductions in the amounts owing to creditors (which reduce interest expense), or both. Which should it be? United's situation is complicated by the fact that its employees own 55 percent of its stock and that their wage levels are protected by a collective bargaining agreement. But if we assume …
The Globalization (Americanization?) Of Executive Pay, Randall Thomas, Brian R. Cheffins
The Globalization (Americanization?) Of Executive Pay, Randall Thomas, Brian R. Cheffins
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
In the United States, the remuneration packages of top executives are characterized by a strong emphasis on pay-for-performance and by a highly lucrative "upside." There is much discussion of the possibility that executive pay practices will globalize in accordance with this pattern. This Article assesses whether such convergence is likely to occur. After surveying briefly the key components of managerial remuneration and after examining the essential elements of the "U.S. pay paradigm," the Article considers market-oriented dynamics that could constitute a "global compensation imperative." These include wider dispersion of share ownership, more cross-border hiring of executives, growing international merger and …
The Business Judgment Rule As Abstention Doctrine, Stephen M. Bainbridge
The Business Judgment Rule As Abstention Doctrine, Stephen M. Bainbridge
Vanderbilt Law Review
The business judgment rule is corporate law's central doctrine, pervasively affecting the roles of directors, officers, and controlling shareholders. Increasingly, moreover, versions of the business judgment rule are found in the law governing the other types of business organizations, ranging from such common forms as the general partnership to such unusual ones as the reciprocal insurance exchange. Yet, curiously, there is relatively little agreement as to either the theoretical underpinnings of or policy justification for the rule. This gap in our understanding has important doctrinal implications. As this paper demonstrates, a string of recent decisions by the Delaware supreme court …