The legal transplant literature typically focuses on legal transplants through governmental channels (e.g., legislative or judiciary processes). This article however directs attention to a generally ignored phenomenon: legal transplants through private contracting in the globalization age....

This Article provides a view on corporate social accountability standards from a Chinese perspective, a slightly different angle from that of legal scholars in the United States. The legal literature in the United States typically only focuses on the importance and effectiveness of corporate...

This paper examines a vendor–buyer integrated system that includes rework and an enhanced product delivery policy that aims at lowering stock holding costs for both the vendor and the buyer. It extends the recent work of Chiu et al. (2011) by incorporating an amending ‘n+1’ shipment policy...

There is an active debate among corporate law professors about the extent to which European companies are converging on the Anglo-American shareholder-wealth-maximizing model of the corporation. In this model, the paramount obligation of corporate officers and directors is to maximize the...

This paper argues that key differences between the UK and the US in the importance ascribed to a company's social responsibilities (CSR) reflect differences in the corporate governance arrangements in these two countries. Specifically, we analyse the role of a salient type of owner in the UK and...