Routledge Research in Corporate Law
About the Book Series
The credit crunch of 2007 and the ensuing financial crises have led to a renewed interest in the place of corporations in the modern world and the role of law and regulation in governing their behaviour. This series looks to survey the current developments within the field of corporate law as well as mapping out future opportunities for change. The series offers a comparative approach to the subject, looking not just at North America and Europe but also at the state of affairs elsewhere in the world. Written by influential scholars, the books offer thought-provoking and often critical analyses of corporate law. The functions and legal obligations and rights of multiple stakeholders including directors, investors, governments and regulators are examined from both empirical and theoretical standpoints. Whilst being grounded in law the series also draws upon research from the disciplines of economics, management studies, sociology and politics in order to explore the implications of corporate law in their wider social and economic context.
Regulation and the Credit Rating Agencies: Restraining Ancillary Services
1st Edition
By Daniel Cash
June 30, 2020
This book examines the transgressions of the credit rating agencies before, during and after the recent financial crisis. It proposes that by restricting the agencies’ ability to offer ancillary services there stands the opportunity to limit, in an achievable and practical manner, the potentially ...
Beyond Shareholder Wealth Maximisation: Towards a More Suitable Corporate Objective for Chinese Companies
1st Edition
By Min Yan
December 12, 2019
The corporate objective, namely, in whose interests a company should be run, is the most important theoretical and practical issue confronting us today, as this core objective animates or should animate every decision a company makes. Despite decades of debate, however, there is no consensus ...
Corporate Law and Financial Instability
1st Edition
By Andreas Kokkinis
December 12, 2019
Virtually all large banks and other financial institutions in the UK and internationally are public limited liability companies whose shares are listed on one or several stock exchanges. As such, their corporate governance and, in particular, the incentives faced by their directors and senior ...
Legal Approaches and Corporate Social Responsibility: Towards a Llewellyn’s Law-Jobs Approach
1st Edition
By Adaeze Okoye
October 18, 2018
From the late 20th Century, a catalogue of high profile disasters and controversies has drawn attention to the changing relationship between corporations and society. This is taking place against the context of globalisation and this change has become the driving force for demands that corporations...
Piercing the Corporate Veil in Latin American Jurisprudence: A comparison with the Anglo-American method
1st Edition
By Jose Maria Lezcano
June 01, 2018
This book is a comparative law study exploring the piercing of the corporate veil in Latin America within the context of the Anglo-American method. The piercing of the corporate veil is a remedy applied, in exceptional circumstances, to prevent and punish an inappropriate use of the corporate ...
Rethinking Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions
1st Edition
By Demetra Arsalidou
June 01, 2018
There are many deep-seated reasons for the current financial turmoil but a key factor has undoubtedly been the serious failings within the corporate governance practices of financial institutions. There have been shortcomings in the risk management and incentive structures; the boards’ supervision ...
Disqualification of Company Directors: A Comparative Analysis of the Law in the UK, Australia, South Africa, the US and Germany
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean Jacques du Plessis, Jeanne Nel de Koker
January 08, 2018
This book provides a clear overview of the legal rules relating to directors’ disqualification in Australia, Germany, South Africa, the UK and the US, and to highlight the differences in the disqualification regimes of these jurisdictions. The book seeks to determine whether disqualification on ...
Behavioural Risks in Corporate Governance: Regulatory Intervention as a Risk Management Mechanism
1st Edition
By Ngozi Vivian Okoye
May 25, 2017
Recent cases of corporate failures, including the fixing of LIBOR rates and money laundering issues in the banking industry, highlight how behavioural issues on the part of company directors are significant contributory factors in corporate governance and the success or failure of companies. This ...
Board Accountability in Corporate Governance
1st Edition
By Andrew Keay
January 11, 2017
Within corporate governance the accountability of the board of directors is identified as a major issue by governments, international bodies, professional associations and academic literature. Boards are given significant power in companies, and as a consequence it is argued that they should be ...
The Changing Nature of Corporate Social Responsibility: CSR and Development – The Case of Mauritius
1st Edition
By Renginee Pillay
November 03, 2016
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has increasingly been promoted as an important mechanism for furthering economic and social development goals in developing countries. In such an optimistic climate, questions arise as to whether CSR can bear the weight of the increasing expectations being ...
Directors’ Decisions and the Law: Promoting Success
1st Edition
By Alice Belcher
March 03, 2016
Directors are key decision-makers in any organisation, whether it is in the public sector, a family business or a transnational company. The UK Companies Act 2006 codified directors’ duties for the first time and describes the director as the ‘most likely to promote the success of the company for ...
Rethinking Corporate Governance: The Law and Economics of Control Powers
1st Edition
By Alessio Pacces
October 12, 2015
The standard approach to the legal foundations of corporate governance is based on the view that corporate law promotes separation of ownership and control by protecting non-controlling shareholders from expropriation. This book takes a broader perspective by showing that investor protection is a ...