Small and Medium Enterprises, Law and Business - Uncertainty and Justice

The law plays an ambiguous role in running business. While legal tools can be used to tame uncertainties, for example, by concluding contracts to safeguard enforcement of future claims, they can also generate uncertainty.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. A money-making machine: The first look at SMEs’ paths to justice
Chapter 2. The payment game: Indebtedness as a justiciable issue
Chapter 3. Contractual uncertainty and trickle-down economics
Chapter 4. Paradise lost. SMEs, authorities, and regulation
Chapter 5. "I’ve got these nice lads." Accountants, lawyers, and courts as instruments of managing uncertainty
Chapter 6. Bigger is better, until you go extinct. Economic growth and legal uncertainty
Appendix A: Methodological annex
Appendix B: Overview of respondents
Works cited

About the author

Jan Winczorek is an Assistant Professor in Law at the University of Warsaw, Poland
Karol Muszynski is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven, Belgium

Summary

The law plays an ambiguous role in running business. While legal tools can be used to tame uncertainties, for example, by concluding contracts to safeguard enforcement of future claims, they can also generate uncertainty.

Product details

• Authors: Karol Muszynski, Jan Winczorek, Jan Muszynski Winczorek, Winczorek Jan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.06.2023
• EAN: 9781032151076
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3215107-6
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Routledge Research in Corporate Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Small businesses & self-employed, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business, LAW / Corporate, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Mathematics, Small businesses and self-employment, Business mathematics & systems, Company law, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Freelance & Self-Employment, Business mathematics and systems