CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN CONTEX

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-929070-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 968 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 1582 g

Increased regulatory competition has sharpened the comparative awareness of advantages or disadvantages of different national models of political economy, economic organization, governance and regulation. Although institutional change is slow and subject to functional complementarities as well as social and cultural entrenchment, at least some features of successful modern market economies have been in the process of converging over the last decades. The most
important change is a shift in governance from state to the market. As bureaucratic ex-ante control is replaced by judicial ex-post control, administrative discretion is replaced by the rule of law as guidelines for the economy. Furthermore, at least to some extent, public enforcement is being reduced in
favor of private enforcement by way of disclosure, enhanced liability, and correspondent litigation for damages. Corporatist approaches to governance are giving way to market approaches, and outsider and market-oriented corporate governance models seem to be replacing insider-based regimes.

This transition is far from smooth and poses a daunting challenge to regulators and academics trying to redefine the fundamental governance and regulatory setting. They are confronted with the task of making or keeping the national regulatory structure attractive to investors in the face of competitive pressures from other jurisdictions to adopt state-of-the-art solutions. At the same time, however, they must establish a coherent institutional framework that accommodates the efficient, modern
rules with the existing and hard-to-change institutional setting. These challenges - put in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective - are the subject of the book. As a reflection of the transnationality of the issues addressed, the world's three leading economies and their legal systems are
included on an equal basis: the EU, the U.S., and Japan across each of the subtopics of corporations, bureaucracy and regulation, markets, and intermediaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hopt, Klaus J.

Wymeersch, Eddy

Kanda, Hideki

Baum, Harald

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht, Währungsrecht
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Asien (inkl. Türkei und Naher Osten)
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Außenhandel
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht Allgemeines Unternehmensrecht, Unternehmenskauf und -bewertung, M & A
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Internationales Management

Über Autor(innen)

Klaus J. Hopt is Professor of Law and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private Law and Private International Law, Hamburg

Hideki Kanda is Professor of Law, University of Tokyo. Mr Kanda served as Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School in 1989, 1991, and 1993 and at Harvard Law School in 1996. His main areas of specialization include corporate law, securities regulation and banking regulation.

Harald Baum is Senior Research Fellow and head of the Japan Law Department, Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private Law and Private International Law, Hamburg; senior lecturer in law, University of Hamburg; Research Associate, European Corporate Governance Institute, Brussels. PD Dr Baum has served as Alexander von Humboldt Foundation/Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow at Kyoto University. He is the founding and executive editor of the Journal of Japanese Law and has
published intensely on business law, corporate governance, takeovers, and capital markets regulation in Germany, the EU, Japan, and the US

Eddy Wymeersch, Professor of Commercial Law, University of Ghent