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Comparative Corporate Governance: A Functional and International Analysis
Author(s): Andreas M. Fleckner (Editor), Klaus J. Hopt
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: 11 July 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 1176 pages
- ISBN-10: 1107025117
- ISBN-13: 9781107025110
Book Description
The business corporation is one of the greatest organizational inventions, but it creates risks both for shareholders and for third parties. To mitigate these risks, legislators, judges, and corporate lawyers have tried to learn from foreign experiences and adapt their regulatory regimes to them. In the last three decades, this approach has led to a stream of corporate and capital market law reforms unseen before. Corporate governance, the system by which companies are directed and controlled, is today a key topic for legislation, practice, and academia all over the world. Corporate scandals and financial crises have repeatedly highlighted the need to better understand the economic, social, political, and legal determinants of corporate governance in individual countries. Comparative Corporate Governance furthers this goal by bringing together current scholarship in law and economics with the expertise of local corporate governance specialists from twenty-three countries.
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Book Description
A unique analysis which combines current scholarship in law and economics with the expertise of local corporate governance specialists.
About the Author
Andreas M. Fleckner is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany.
Klaus J. Hopt is a Professor of Law and Director (Emeritus) of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany.
