Until now, digitization and sustainability have stood side by side in the discussion of business law. As leading discourses of the present-day business scene, both topics are leading to profound change in companies and are influencing each other in the process - a circumstance that can no longer...

Until now, digitization and sustainability have stood side by side in the discussion of business law. As leading discourses of the present-day business scene, both topics are leading to profound change in companies and are influencing each other in the process - a circumstance that can no longer...

More than fifty years before the debate about the contractibility of corporate law in the United States, English and then Australian lawmakers truncated what had been substantial scope for contracting around directors' duties. Legislation imposed mandatory rules concerning conflicts of interest...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an easy‐to‐read article for academics, lawyers, directors and those advising directors, to be able to gain an appreciation of the duties that directors owe to their companies in light of the Companies Act 2006, the Corporate Manslaughter...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between social capital and the directors' duty to promote the success of the company and to foster business relationships, which is a comparatively under‐researched issue. Design/methodology/approach – The approach taken...