Corporate Governance and Directors' Liabilities: Legal, Economic and Sociological Analyses on Corporate Social Responsibility / Edition 1

by Klaus J. Hopt, Gunther Teubner

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110100273
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	12/01/1984
Series:	European University Institute - Series A , #1
Edition description:	Reprint 2012
Pages:	474
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table 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