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How firm reputation shapes managerial discretion

The modern marketplace is saturated with ‘ratings’ and ‘reviews’ of a firm’s products, services, and financial performance on platforms such as Google, Yelp, Bloomberg, and Facebook. While we know a...

8 June 2018

Owen Parker

Ryan Krause

Cynthia Devers

Teaching Corporate Social Responsibility to Aspiring Business Lawyers

After each horrifying factory disaster, financial scandal and tax avoidance exposé, the question on everyone’s lips is: how do we make corporations act more responsibly? While there have been numerous...

20 December 2017

Alex Geert Castermans

Morshed Mannan

Caspar Van Woensel

FRC publishes proposals for a revised UK Corporate Governance Code

Following on from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy's response to its November 2016 Green Paper on corporate governance reform, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published proposed revisions to...

19 December 2017

Will Chalk

Richard Preston

Corporate decision-making through strategic reporting: An empirical study

According to the Companies Act 2006, the directors of a company (except a small company: s 414A (2) CA 2006) must prepare a strategic report for each financial year of...

19 October 2017

Iain G MacNeil

Irene-marie Esser

Katarzyna Chalaczkiewicz-Ladna

Corporate Governance: Stakeholders

In response to the recent Green Paper and the UK Government Response, the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (‘ICSA-The Governance Institute’) and the Investment Association...

1 October 2017

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Boards, And the Directors Who Sit on Them

In this chapter on boards for Elsevier’s Handbook of Corporate Governance, edited by Benjamin Hermalin and Michael Weisbach, I argue that boards of directors are intellectually interesting;...

4 August 2017

Renée B Adams

Akzo Nobel: Activist Shareholders Hit Wall of Dutch Stakeholder Model

An attempt at courtship has ended up in court. Over the past months, US paints and coatings giant PPG Industries (‘PPG’) has tried to woe the management and shareholders of...

1 June 2017

Thom Wetzer

Tom Vos

More Teeth Needed for Corporate Governance Reforms: Response to the Green Paper on Corporate Governance Reform

On November 29, 2016, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published a Green Paper on Corporate Governance Reform, which sets out a series of options aimed...

Corporate Governance in the UK

The Business Innovation and Skills Committee of Parliament has begun an inquiry into corporate governance. It has invited comments on directors duties, executive pay and composition of boards with a...

23 September 2016

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Directors’ Duties and Stakeholder Interests: Comparing India and the United Kingdom

An existential (but problematic) question in company law relates to the very purpose for which companies are incorporated and managed. Are companies to be run solely for the purpose of...

28 August 2016

Mihir Naniwadekar

Umakanth Varottil

How firm reputation shapes managerial discretion

Teaching Corporate Social Responsibility to Aspiring Business Lawyers

FRC publishes proposals for a revised UK Corporate Governance Code

Corporate decision-making through strategic reporting: An empirical study

Corporate Governance: Stakeholders

Boards, And the Directors Who Sit on Them

Akzo Nobel: Activist Shareholders Hit Wall of Dutch Stakeholder Model

More Teeth Needed for Corporate Governance Reforms: Response to the Green Paper on Corporate Governance Reform

Corporate Governance in the UK

Directors’ Duties and Stakeholder Interests: Comparing India and the United Kingdom

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