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The Evolution of the Corporation: Organization, Finance, Knowledge and Corporate Social Responsibility
Zumbansen, Peer - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2008
This paper, which selectively focuses on the contested concept of Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR], forms part of a larger research project on the evolution of corporate governance. This research posits the evolution of corporate governance along three historical paradigms: first, the...
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Shareholder Primacy and the Trajectory of UK Corporate Governance
Armour, John; Deakin, Simon; Konzelmann, Suzanne J. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2003
Core institutions of UK corporate governance, in particular those relating to takeovers, board structure and directors’ duties, are strongly orientated towards a norm of shareholder primacy. Beyond the core, in particular at the intersection of insolvency and employment law, stakeholder...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005687992
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The Reflexive Properties of Corporate Governance Codes: The Reception of the 'Comply or Explain' Approach in Slovenia
Cankar, Nina; Deakin, Simon; Simoneti, Marko - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2008
The Slovenian Corporate Governance Code for Public Joint-Stock Companies was adopted in March 2004. Using a systems-theoretical approach, we examine the extent to which the implementation of the Code has resulted in the kinds of 'reflexive' learning processes which the 'comply or explain'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005813008
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The Mechanism of Voting Efficiency
Schouten, M.C. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010
In the wake of the financial crisis, shareholders are increasingly relied upon to monitor directors. But while much has been written about directors' flawed judgments, remarkably little is known about shareholders' ability to make accurate judgments. What determines whether shareholders make the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010614650
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Corporate Governance and Financial Crisis in the Long Run
Deakin, S. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010
Prior to the global financial crisis which began in 2007, corporate governance reforms of the preceding thirty years had promoted a shareholder-value based model of management for which there was little historical precedent. The underlying legal model of the firm retained a vestigial sense of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010614652
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Law and Financial Development: What we are learning from time-series evidence
Armour, J.; Deakin, S.; Mollica, V.; Siems, M.M. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010
The legal origins hypothesis is one of the most important and influential ideas to emerge in the social sciences in the past decade. However, the empirical base of the legal origins claim has always been contestable, as it largely consists of cross-sectional datasets which provide evidence on...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858394
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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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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 … assessing and protecting against risk in financial markets. It acknowledges that different structural approaches to corporate … to adopt good regulatory practices that approximate the economic risk exposure of the financial institution. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162857
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The Influence of Stock Market Listing on Human Resource Managment: Evidence for France and Britain
Conway, Neil; Deakin, Simon; Konzelmann, Suzzanne J.; … - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2008
We use data from REPONSE 2004 and WERS 2004 to analyse whether approaches to HRM differ according to whether an establishment is part of a company with a stock exchange listing. In both countries we find that listing is positively associated with teamworking and performance-related pay, while in...
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