Half Title Page -- Half Title verso -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Corporation and Its Employees -- INTRODUCTION TO THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DEBATE -- THE CORPORATION AND ITS EMPLOYEES -- REAL LIVES: TOO MUCH WORK AND NO WORK --...

Employment relations are well understood. Business format franchising is a newer and rapidlyevolving business expansion formula, also providing employment. This article compares the fatesof employees and franchisees in their employer/franchisor insolvency.Whereas employees enjoyprotection,...

High risk banking practices were a central factor of the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the world is still feeling the aftershocks. Sovereign debt, austerity, and the degradation of social benefits, employee rights, and even the democratic framework of sovereign nations have been only some of...

Fundamental corporate law concepts such as limited liability, corporate personality, share ownership and transferability, and the division between ownership (shareholders) and control (management) are all part of company law systems in common and civil law countries. These concepts are designed...

The U.S. is often placed within a liberal-utilitarian model and the E.U. is often positioned within a social model. But, rather than adhere to such neat divisions and other binary choices like regulatory models versus voluntarist models such as the corporate social responsibility model, this...