Beyond Shareholder Wealth Maximisation - Towards a More Suitable Corporate Objective for Chinese Companies

This book explores approaches to the corporate objective and then goes on to discuss these approaches in the context of China due to its importance in the global economic and political arena. The book advocates a stakeholder model as the basis for Chinese corporate law and corporate governance.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Shareholder Wealth Maximisation Re-examined 3. Shareholder Power and Shareholder Empowerment 4. Shareholders’ Rights and Corporate Objectives in China: Past and Present 5. Towards Stakeholder Model 6. A More Suitable Corporate Objective in China

About the author

Min Yan is a Lecturer in Business Law and the Director of the BSc Business with Law Programme at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, UK. His research interests are generally in the fields of corporate law, corporate governance and comparative business law studies.

Summary

This book explores approaches to the corporate objective and then goes on to discuss these approaches in the context of China due to its importance in the global economic and political arena. The book advocates a stakeholder model as the basis for Chinese corporate law and corporate governance.

Product details

• Authors: Min Yan, Yan Min
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2017
• EAN: 9781138288867
• ISBN: 978-1-138-28886-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Routledge Research in Corporate Law; Routledge Research in Corporat; Routledge Research in Corporate Law; Routledge Research in Corporat
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; China, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, LAW / Corporate, Economic theory & philosophy, Management of specific areas, Company law, Economic theory and philosophy