This study compares CEO employment contracts across two common law countries: the United States and Australia. Although the regulatory regimes of these jurisdictions enjoy many comparable features, there are also some important institutional differences in terms of capital market, tax, and...

The convergence/divergence debate at the turn of this decade was often underpinned by the assumption of a unified and cohesive common law governance model, which would (or, for path dependence theorists, would not) form the point of convergence of corporate governance regimes around the...