OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS CORPORATE BOARDS IN LAW AND PRACTICE 2013 RETAIL EBOOK-kE

TITLE: CORPORATE BOARDS IN EUROPEAN LAW: A COMPARATIVE
ANALYSIS
PUBLISHER: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PR LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LINK: http://is.gd/0Ne5jr RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL
FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2015.01.25
ISBN: 9780198705154 STORE DATE: 2013
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AUTHOR: PAUL DAVIES, KLAUS HOPT, RICHARD NOWAK
GERARD VAN SOLINGE

BOOK

Corporate boards play a central role in corporate governance and
are thus regulated in the corporate law and corporate governance
codes of all industrialized countries. Yet while there is a
common core of rules on the boards considerable differences
remain. These differences depend partly on shareholder structure
partly on historical, political and social developments and
especially employee representation on the board. More recently
in particular with the rise of the international corporate
governance code movement, there is a clear tendency towards
convergence, at least in terms of the formal provisions of the
codes

This book analyzes the corporate boards, their regulation in law
and codes and their actual functioning in ten European countries
(Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain
Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom). It offers the most
up to date practical and analytical information on boards in
Europe by leading company law experts. The issues addressed
include: board structure, composition and functioning (one tier
v. two tier, independent directors, expertise and diversity
separating the chair and the CEO functions, information streams
committees, voting and employee representation); enforcement by
liability rules (in particular conflicts of interest), incentive
structures (remuneration) and shareholder activism