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The Architecture of Corporate Governance in Australia - Corporate Governance - National Report : Australia

Hill, Jennifer G. - 2020

The paper was prepared as the Australian National Report on Corporate Governance for the International Academy of Comparative Law, 18th International Congress of Comparative Law, which was held in Washington from July 25 - August 1, 2010. The paper provides an overview of the structure of...

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Then and Now : Professor Berle and the Unpredictable Shareholder

Hill, Jennifer G. - 2020

This article is published in a special symposium edition on the work of Adolf Berle, which includes papers from a conference, In Berle's Footsteps, held in November 2009 to celebrate the launch of the Adolf A. Berle, Jr. Center on Corporations, Law and Society.Shareholders, and the relationship...

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Subverting Shareholder Rights : Lessons from News Corp.'s Migration to Delaware

Hill, Jennifer G. - 2020

This Article provides a detailed case study, from a corporate governance perspective, of the 2004 decision of News Corp to migrate from Australia, where it had been incorporated for decades, and to reincorporate in Delaware. As the Article shows, News Corp.'s move to the United States was both...

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Worker Representation on U.S. Corporate Boards

Palladino, Lenore - 2019

This article argues that workers should have representation on corporate boards of directors and explores the policy choices available in the U.S. context achieve the goal of worker representation. Effectively implementing such a reform requires consideration of key issues, including: how many...

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Brief Remarks on the Necessary Clarification of Market Abuse Prohibitions in Times of Shareholder Activism

Pietrancosta, Alain - 2019

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Myopic Investor Myth Debunked : The Long-Term Efficacy of Shareholder Advocacy in the Boardroom

Goodwin, PhD, Shane - 2014

Over the past two decades, hedge fund activism has emerged as new form of corporate governance mechanism that brings about operational, financial and governance reforms to a corporation. Many prominent business executives and legal scholars are convinced that the entire American economy will...

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Culture and Law in Corporate Governance

Licht, Amir N. - 2014

Understanding the role of culture in corporate governance has become a subject of growing importance. Today, no institutional analysis of corporate governance systems would be complete without considering the cultural environment in which such systems are embedded. This paper provides an...

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Say-on-Pay in a Context of Concentrated Ownership. Evidence from Italy

Belcredi, Massimo - 2014

We investigate say-on-pay (SOP) voting outcomes in a country (Italy) where ownership structure is concentrated by regressing shareholder dissent on a comprehensive set of independent variables (spanning from remuneration structure and disclosure to corporate governance), coming from the Italian...

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The Financial Crisis : A Reason to Improve Shareholder Protection in the EU?

Mukwiri, Jonathan - 2014

The global financial crisis of 2008 has stimulated the debate on corporate governance and shareholder protection. The intuitive reason for the topicality of shareholder protection is that insolvencies mainly harm shareholders as the companies' residual claimants. In addition, ideally,...

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Empirical Analysis of Legal Institutions and Institutional Change : Multiple-Methods Approaches and Their Application to Corporate Governance Research

Buchanan, John - 2014

The claim that institutions matter for economic growth and development has so far received a more extensive theoretical … and the economy, we link theory to method and explore three techniques for analysing legal institutions empirically … measurement of institutions is possible, quantitative techniques have their limits, and should be combined with fieldwork in a …

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