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List of contents
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Chapter I. Theoretical Framework and Legal Foundations -- The Legal Development of Corporate Responsibility -- 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 -- 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 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 -- 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 -- 464
About the author
Gunther Teubner ist Professor für Privatrecht und Rechtssoziologie in Frankfurt und Centennial Visiting Professor an der London School of Economics.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Klaus J. Hopt ist Direktor des Max-Planck-Instituts für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg.
