Corporate Governance and Directors' Liabilities

Legal, Economic and Sociological Analyses on Corporate Social Responsibility

Klaus J. Hopt, Gunther Teubner, Klaus J. Hopt, Gunther Teubner

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9783110100273
• eBook ISBN: 9783110871111
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Derecho
• Subtopic: Derecho internacional

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Table of contents

• Foreword
• Chapter I: Theoretical Framework and Legal Foundations
• The Legal Development of Corporate Responsibility: For Whom Will Corporate Managers Be Trustees?
• The Economic Context of Corporate Social Responsibility
• Responsibility in Corporate Action: A Sociologist’s View
• Chapter II: Strategies of Institutionalizing Corporate Social Responsibility
• Corporate Social Responsibility: Interests and Goals
• Public Interest Representation: Economic and Social Policy Inside the Enterprise
• Chapter III: Directors’ Duties and Liabilities
• Corporate Fiduciary Duties and Their Beneficiaries: A Functional Approach to the Legal Institutionalization of Corporate Responsibility
• The Economic Functions of Corporate Liability
• Board Members’ Liability for Damages
• The Private Law Enforcement of Directors’ Duties
• Chapter IV: Disclosure and Social Reporting
• Self-Dealing and the Use of Corporate Opportunity and Information: Regulating Directors’ Conflicts of Interest
• Disclosure as Preventive Enforcement
• Disclosure, Insider Information and Capital Market Functions
• Corporate Social Reporting and Auditing: Theory and Practice
• Rescue Operations in Business Crises: Management’s Role in Economic Perspective
• Chapter V: Outside Representation on the Boards: Conflicts of Interest
• The Enterprise as a Political System
• Dual Loyalty of Labor Representatives
• Annex
• Biographical Sketches of the Authors
• Table of Cases
• Index