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A Legal Basis for Workers as Agents: Employment Contracts, Common Law, and the Theory of the Firm
Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 1997
The purpose of this paper is to show that the common law governing the employment of labor makes the distinction not … only between employee and independent contractor but also between managerial control and agency. The idea is that common … the common law and they often sign detailed, formal employment contracts. The typical features of formal employment …
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Implicit contracts, takeovers and corporate governance: in the shadow of the city code
Deakin, Simon; Hobbs, Richard; Nash, David; Slinger, Giles - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2002
This paper offers a qualitative, case-study based analysis of hostile takeover bids mounted in the UK in the mid-1990s under the regime of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers. It is shown that during bids, directors of bid targets focus on the concerns of target shareholders to the exclusion...
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Abfindungen für Vorstandsmitglieder ohne und mit Beschränkungen
Dilger, Alexander - 2020
Empfehlungen zur Beschränkung von Abfindungen an vorzeitig ausscheidende Vorstandsmitglieder werden häufig nicht eingehalten. Solange Vorstandsmitglieder nicht gegen ihren Willen entlassen werden dürfen, ist eine Beschränkung der Abfindungen weder im Interesse der Unternehmen noch effizient....
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Abusive Workplace Behavior: Behavioral and Legal Insights
Tziner, Aharon; Bar-Mor, Hadara; Geva, Lilach; Levi, Haim; … - In: Amfiteatru Economic 25 (2023) 62, pp. 235-250
link between employment quality and mental and physical health and the changes developing in the labor market, including …
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Shareholder Primacy and the Trajectory of UK Corporate Governance
Armour, John - 2011
insolvency and employment law, stakeholder interests are better represented, thanks to European Community influence. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120335
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Occupational Licensure : From Barbers to Accountants and Physicians, Influences on Professional Practice in the United States
Alvarez, Ph.D., Esq., Ariel - 2013
This paper examines mandatory occupational licensure in several professions from barbers, cosmetologists, radiologic technicians, CPAs, mid-level healthcare providers, and physicians. Mandatory licensure is cited as a mechanism for serving the public interest by assuring professionals possess...
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The Future of 401(K) Plan Fees
Forman, Jonathan Barry - 2008
There were 47 million participants in 401(k) plans in 2005, up from just 8 million in the 1980s. More than 90 percent of 401(k) plan participants can choose how to invest their accounts, and nearly half invest in stock funds. That's a lot of money and a lot of investors. At bottom, the...
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Realigning Corporate Governance : Shareholder Activism by Labor Unions
Schwab, Stewart J. - 2009
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The SEC's 2006 Soft Dollar Guidance : Law and Economics
Johnsen, D. Bruce - 2008
After some two years of deliberations, in July 2006 the SEC released its long-awaited Guidance on the scope of the soft dollar safe harbor. Passed as part of the Securities Acts Amendments in May, 1975, the safe harbor has protected fund advisers and other money managers for over 30 years from...
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Directed Brokerage, Conflicts of Interest, and Transaction Cost Economics
Johnsen, D. Bruce - 2008
This paper relies on the economics of transaction costs to assess the likely effect on investor welfare of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) prohibition on an innovative business practice known as directed brokerage. Its key insight is that the quality of a broker's execution...
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