The authors analyse resolutions proposed by shareholders of Australian companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange for the 10 year period from 2004 to 2013. They investigate the number of shareholder resolutions over time, the subject matter of the resolutions, whether the resolutions...

Various explanations have been advanced for why shareholder protection looks the way that it does. These explanations include varieties of capitalism, legal origins and various configurations of social interests. When compared with the United States and the United Kingdom, Australian corporate...

In this article we analyse the allocation of responsibilities between the board of directors and senior management in board charters of companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. There are several reasons why this research is of interest. First, the allocation of responsibilities...

This new book, published by Ashgate, examines how businesses manage their labour systems, and particularly how they manage the complex interaction of various factors which give rise to instances of ‘partnership' style relations between businesses and their employees. The book draws from the...

The enactment of the civil penalty regime in 1993 introduced a new approach to the enforcement of directors' duties by statutory agencies in Australia. The policy considerations that led to the regime, and which continue to inform current policies on corporate law enforcement, require that:...

The issue of how to regulate conflicts of interest in the company law context has always been challenging. Applying traditional fiduciary standards to modern commercial relationships can be conceptually difficult. This can be seen by the fact that divergent approaches to the application of the...