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Anglo-American corporate governance and the employment relationship: a case to answer?

Deakin, Simon; Hobbs, Richard; Konzelmann, Sue; … - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2005

The corporate governance environment in the UK and US is generally thought to be hostile to the emergence of cooperative employment relations of the kind exemplified by labour-management partnerships. We discuss case study evidence from the UK which suggests that, contrary to this widespread...

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Partnership, Ownership and Control: The Impact of Corporate Governance on Employment Relations

Deakin, S.; Hobbs, R.; Konzelmann, S.; Wilkinson, F. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

ownership. Where the corporate governance system can be seen to support partnership, it is in conjunction with market regulation …

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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 …. An important task for supervisors and regulators is to ensure that incentives exist to encourage senior bank management …

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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'...

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Regulating organizations through codes of corporate governance

Seidl, David - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2006

Although codes of corporate governance have come to be widely used as a mode of regulating corporations, our understanding of how they function is still rather limited. In this paper we describe the design of such code regimes and propose a theoretical framework for studying their effects. On...

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Japan's Paradoxical Response to the new 'Global Standard' in Corporate Governance

Buchanan, John; Deakin, Simon - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2007

We suggest, on the basis of empirical research into the implementation of recent legal reforms, that Japan is not moving inexorably towards a 'global standard' in corporate governance, based on external monitoring and a market for corporate control. Japanese corporate governance is nevertheless...

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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...

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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...

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Corporate Governance and Financial Crisis in the Long Run

Deakin, S. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010

were more immediate factors at play, including ineffective regulation. However, the general trend towards shareholder value …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010614652

Rethinking Receivership

Armour, John; Frisby, Sandra - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2000

A popular perception is that administrative receivers and their appointors hold 'too much' power in relation to troubled companies. Consideration of this issue is timely, because insolvency law is currently under review. We argue although the law's formal structure is imbalanced, this can...

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