1st Edition

Shareholder Primacy and Corporate Governance Legal Aspects, Practices and Future Directions

By Shuangge Wen Copyright 2014
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Rising defaults in the financial market in 2007, the current widespread economic recession and debt crisis have added impetus to existing doubts about companies’ governance, and cast new light on future trends in shareholder-oriented corporate practice. Taking account of these developments in the field and realising the current need for changes in governance, this book offers a thorough... Read more

Introduction   Part 1: The Basis Of Shareholder Primacy in the UK  1. Corporate Governance: Concepts and Mechanisms  2. The Corporate Objective Mapped in Theories and Legal Practices I: Shareholder Primacy through the Economic Lens  3. The Corporate Objective Mapped in Theories and Legal Practices II: The Feasibility of the UK Moving Towards the Stakeholder End  Part 2: Forces Driving UK Corporate Governance Reforms   4. The Force of EU Harmonisation Action and its Effect in Transforming the UK Shareholder  Part 3: Recent Changes in UK Company Law and Corporate Governance  5. Recent Changes in UK Company Law and Corporate Governance  Part 4: Future Predictions   6. Exploring the Rationale of Sharehole Primacy in the UK  7. The Way Forward in the Wake of the Crisis  Conclusion

Biography

Shuangge Wen is a lecturer at Swansea University, UK.