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The study of corporate governance is a relatively modern development, with significant attention devoted to the subject only during the last fifty years. The introductory essay describes the intellectual history of the field and analyses the material selected for the volume. The selected papers constitute the best and most representative studies of
List of contents
Contents: Introduction; Part I The Purpose of the Corporation: Corporate powers as powers in trust, A.A. Berle Jr; For whom are corporate managers trustees?, E. Merrick Dodd Jr; The end of history for corporate law, Henry Hansman and Reinier Kraakman; Our schizophrenic conception of the business corporation, William T. Allen. Part II The Board of Directors: Legal models of management structure in the modern corporation: officers, directors, and accountants, Melvin Aron Eisenberg; A team production theory of corporate law, Margaret M. Blair and Lynn A. Stout; Director primacy: the means and ends of corporate governance, Stephen M. Bainbridge. Part III Shareholders: Shareholders as proxies: the contours of shareholder democracy, Dalia Tsuk Mitchell; Hedge funds in corporate governance and corporate control, Marcel Kahan and Edward B. Rock; Sovereign wealth funds and corporate governance: a minimalist response to the new mercantilism, Ronald J. Gilson and Curtis J. Milhaupt. Part IV A Look at the Future?: Corporate governance in China: then and now, Cindy A. Schipani and Junhai Liu; Name index.
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Lawrence E. Mitchell is a Professor at The George Washington University Law School, USA
Summary
The study of corporate governance is a relatively modern development, with significant attention devoted to the subject only during the last fifty years. The introductory essay describes the intellectual history of the field and analyses the material selected for the volume. The selected papers constitute the best and most representative studies of
