Maria Angeles Fernández Izquierdo, M. Muñoz-Torres, I. Ferrero
{"title":"Comprehensive Management and Financial and Extra-Financial Risk Control to Overcome the Business Crisis","authors":"Maria Angeles Fernández Izquierdo, M. Muñoz-Torres, I. Ferrero","doi":"10.54648/eucl2014015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54648/eucl2014015","url":null,"abstract":"The crisis is an opportunity for a change in the management models, which may contribute a greater efficiency and effectiveness of political strategies and processes in organisations. Taking into account every risk holistically and seeking a sustainable management, this article explores how an organization may include financial and extra-financial variables in the risk management in order to create sustainable value over the long term","PeriodicalId":211727,"journal":{"name":"University of Oslo Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115100025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corporate Mobility in the European Union – A Flash in the Pan? An Empirical Study on the Success of Lawmaking and Regulatory Competition","authors":"W. Ringe","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2247323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2247323","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses new data on regulatory competition in European company law and the impact of national law reforms, using the example of English company law forms being used by German start-ups. Since 1999, entrepreneurs in the EU have been allowed to select foreign legal forms to govern their affairs. The data show that English limited companies were very popular with German entrepreneurs in the first few years of the last decade but have experienced a sharp decline since early 2006. This decline casts doubt over the claim that the German company law reform from November 2008 ‘successfully fought off’ the use of foreign company forms. Moreover, by contrasting the German data with the corresponding developments in Austria, the paper further demonstrates that the latter jurisdiction is also seeing a similar decline, and without having reformed its company law. Instead of exclusively seeing law reform responsible for the declining number of foreign incorporations, this paper offers a number of alternative or complementary explanations for the striking developments. These findings are important for our understanding of (defensive) regulatory competition and successful lawmaking.","PeriodicalId":211727,"journal":{"name":"University of Oslo Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123250621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"30 percent Women on Boards: New Law in the Netherlands (2012)","authors":"T. Lambooy","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2083449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2083449","url":null,"abstract":"The lack of upward mobility for women is an issue in many European countries. Gender segregation in the labor market, including the failure to promote women to senior posts, is one of the subjects addressed in a new act that will become effective mid 2012 in the Netherlands. The Act will amend Dutch corporate law. It requires large companies to have 'gender balanced' boards, comprising at least 30 percent women and 30 percent men. This article elaborates on the Act's legislative history, content, application and enforcement possibilities. It puts it in the perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and of gender equality as a human right as promoted in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Finally, the article compares the Act's provisions with the Dutch Corporate Governance Code because the latter also contains provisions on gender in board composition.","PeriodicalId":211727,"journal":{"name":"University of Oslo Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130609868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating CSR Principles in Capital Markets Through the Prospectus Directive","authors":"Jelena Stamenkova van Rumpt","doi":"10.54648/eucl2012013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54648/eucl2012013","url":null,"abstract":"This article shows arguments in favour of integrating CSR information in every prospectus so as to ensure clarity and comparability of information and providing a level-playing field and promoting sustainable development in Europe.","PeriodicalId":211727,"journal":{"name":"University of Oslo Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121292550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CSR in Japanese Company Law","authors":"J. Ueda","doi":"10.54648/eucl2011020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54648/eucl2011020","url":null,"abstract":"Business enterprises - and public- service institutions as well - are organs of society. They do not exist for their own sake, but to fulfil a specific social purpose and to satisfy a specific need of society, community, or individual. They are not ends in themselves, but means. - Peter F. Drucker","PeriodicalId":211727,"journal":{"name":"University of Oslo Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114223308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political Path Dependency in Practice: The Takeover Directive","authors":"Beate Sjåfjell","doi":"10.1093/YEL/27.1.387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/YEL/27.1.387","url":null,"abstract":"Unlike much that has been written about the European takeover directive, where the focus has been on the technicalities of its provisions, and its implementation in the laws of the Member States, this paper looks at the directive from a bird's-eye perspective before exploring the three issues set below: Firstly, taking the implied and express premises of the directive as read, the paper assesses the directive on its own terms. Taking a step back, the paper then considers whether these same premises form a sound basis for legislative action. Finally, an even bigger step back is taken and the directive's overall perspective is considered. The issue that is discussed then is whether this perspective, which forms the basis of the directive's premises and provisions, is sufficiently wide and whether the directive's scope is sufficiently all-encompassing. The discussion of these three issues shows that the takeover directive is an example of political path dependency in practice, both in the narrow and in the wider senses of the term. A call for a comprehensive and thorough debate is made.","PeriodicalId":211727,"journal":{"name":"University of Oslo Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"07 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115716483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}