also increasing their long-term value under the enlightened shareholder value approach. Thanks to organizational and …

framework. In sec. 2, we briefly introduce the benefit corporation with regard to US law and to the laws of some EU member … States, such as France and Italy, which have adopted this company form. In sec. 3, we focus on the benefit corporation … new EU sustainable governance framework does not apply to, such as non-listed SMEs, will adopt the benefit corporation …

For the greater part of the twentieth century the role of shareholders within the public corporation has been … the shareholders do not wish to be involved with the corporation's management, nor do they gain any benefits from an …, the contractarian framework cannot provide suitable benchmarks for evaluating the current shareholder-centric policy …

party transactions to enhanced transparency, outside fairness review, and ex ante shareholder approval is both flawed in its …

‘Shareholder rights' are the legal entitlements of shareholders via-a-vis companies in which they invest. A large body … of research has sought to investigate how shareholder rights foster accountability of controllers. The concern has been … expense of outside investors. A contrasting concern is that strengthening shareholder rights may come at the expense of other …

examines the company law of the UK, the USA, Germany, France, Japan and China to see how this issue affects shareholder law … extent of this development. Thus, Convergence in Shareholder Law not only provides a thorough comparative legal analysis but … harmonisation and shareholder protection should be enhanced" …