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Equality Law and the Limits of the 'Business Case' for addressing Gender Inequalities

McLaughlin, C.; Deakin. S. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2011

The 'business case' for gender equality rests on the claim that organisations can improve their competitiveness through … improved diversity management, in particular by reducing turnover and training costs and minimising reputational and litigation … responsible investment (SRI), shareholders can put pressure on the management of listed companies to take gender issues more …

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Flexible or not? The Comply-or-Explain Principle in UK and German Corporate Governance

Sanderson, P.; Seidl, D.; Roberts, J.; Krieger, B. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010

The current financial crisis has given rise to calls to toughen considerably the codes of corporate governance put in place in many countries to regulate corporate behaviour (e.g. the UK Combined Code). These codes vary slightly in form but tend to contain a mix of non-discretionary regulations...

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Anglo-Saxon Capitalism in Crisis? Models of Liberal Capitalism and the Preconditions for Financial Stability

Konzelmann, S.; Fovargue-Davies, M. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2011

The return to economic liberalism in the Anglo-Saxon world was motivated by the apparent failure of Keynesian economic management to control the stagflation of the 1970s and early 1980s. In this context, the theories of economic liberalism, championed by Friederich von Hayek, Milton Friedman and...

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The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Executive Pay in the United Kingdom

Guest, Paul - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2007

We examine the impact of acquisitions on executive pay in UK acquirers over 1984-2001. For the overall sample, which includes foreign, domestic, public and private targets, there is a significant transitory pay increase. Pay changes are not affected by target nationality or organizational form,...

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Insolvency, Employment Protection and Corporate Restructuring: The effects of TUPE

Armour, J.; Deakin, S. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

The statutory protection currently provided by UK law to employees during transfers of undertakings and other restructurings has been criticised on the grounds that it undermines insolvency procedures and interferes with the 'rescue' process. We present an analysis which suggests that granting...

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Gender pay inequity: a question for corporate social responsibility?

Browne, Jude - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2002

overcome the issue of gender pay inequality. The paper outlines Kingsmill's recommendations and then analyses their efficacy by … these recommendations in overcoming the gender pay gap within the BBC. It concludes by arguing that a partnership between …

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Does Law Matter?: The Separation Of Ownership And Control In The United Kingdom

Cheffins, Brian - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2000

The corporate world today subdivides into rival systems of dispersed and concentrated ownership, with different corporate governance structures characterising each. The United States and the United Kingdom fall into the former category and other major industrial countries tend to fall into the...

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Enhancing Corporate Governance for Financial Institutions: The Role of International Standards

Alexander, Kern; Dhumale, Rahul - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

The threat of systemic risk in international financial markets necessitates the establishment of universal standards for corporate governance of financial institutions. This paper addresses some important issues and concepts in the governance of multinational financial institutions and why...

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Evolution for our time: a theory of legal memetics

Deakin, Simon - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2002

The purpose of this paper is to explore the significance for legal thought of recent developments in evolutionary theory which are associated with the notion of 'memetics'. 'Memetics' aims to account for processes of cultural transmission and change using a version of the 'genetic metaphor'....

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Foreign Corporate Ownership and Dividends

Chai, D.H. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010

This paper investigates the relatively unexplored relationship between dividends and ownership structure in an emerging market setting. Using a unique panel dataset of foreign ownership and firm attributes of listed Korean firms, we first characterize foreign ownership after the full capital...

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