Questions the dominant view that shareholders have a property right over any company in which they invest, the basis of the notion of shareholder supremacy. Argues that "property rights" no longer apply within the modern company law context as share ownership has been decoupled from voting rights. Suggests that the derivative action mechanism of the Companies Act 2006 illustrates that shareholders cannot exercise effective control of management
Recent work in both the theory of the firm and of corporate law has called into question the appropr...
Prevailing theories of corporate law tend to rely heavily on strong claims regarding the corporate g...
This article adopts a definition of property rights from legal scholarship: A property right (in con...
According to the traditional view, the shareholders own the corporation. Until relatively recently, ...
Shareholders’ rights advocates argue that shareholders have the right to control the corporation. Th...
The company is a legal structure designed to bring together the different parties of a firm—its empl...
The shareholder empowerment debate in corporate law is premised upon a reoccurring assumption that, ...
The great corporate scandals of the recent past and the resulting push for legal reform have revived...
Shareholders have many legal rights, but they are not all of equal significance. This article will a...
In the “shareholder primacy” (SP) view of the modern corporation, shareholders are endowed with owne...
This article focuses on shareholder supremacy and exclusivity derived from a view of the company as ...
The fundamental assumptions of corporate law have changed little in decades. Accepted as truth are t...
Few would believe … that a shareholder's interest in a corporation is property in the same way as th...
Corporate law expresses a profound ambiguity toward the role of shareholders. Courts announce that s...
The shareholder primacy model is dominant in Anglo-Saxon corporate governance and financial reportin...
Recent work in both the theory of the firm and of corporate law has called into question the appropr...
Prevailing theories of corporate law tend to rely heavily on strong claims regarding the corporate g...
This article adopts a definition of property rights from legal scholarship: A property right (in con...
According to the traditional view, the shareholders own the corporation. Until relatively recently, ...
Shareholders’ rights advocates argue that shareholders have the right to control the corporation. Th...
The company is a legal structure designed to bring together the different parties of a firm—its empl...
The shareholder empowerment debate in corporate law is premised upon a reoccurring assumption that, ...
The great corporate scandals of the recent past and the resulting push for legal reform have revived...
Shareholders have many legal rights, but they are not all of equal significance. This article will a...
In the “shareholder primacy” (SP) view of the modern corporation, shareholders are endowed with owne...
This article focuses on shareholder supremacy and exclusivity derived from a view of the company as ...
The fundamental assumptions of corporate law have changed little in decades. Accepted as truth are t...
Few would believe … that a shareholder's interest in a corporation is property in the same way as th...
Corporate law expresses a profound ambiguity toward the role of shareholders. Courts announce that s...
The shareholder primacy model is dominant in Anglo-Saxon corporate governance and financial reportin...
Recent work in both the theory of the firm and of corporate law has called into question the appropr...
Prevailing theories of corporate law tend to rely heavily on strong claims regarding the corporate g...
This article adopts a definition of property rights from legal scholarship: A property right (in con...