Organising the Firm Theories of Commercial Law, Corporate Governance and Corporate Law /

• Main Author: Mäntysaari, Petri (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Subjects: Law.; Law > Philosophy.; Commercial law.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Trade.; Industrial organization.; International Economic Law, Trade Law.; Commercial Law.; Industrial Organization.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.

Commercial law, corporate governance and corporate law deal with the organisation of firms. This book proposes a coordinated answer to three problems - the absence of theories of commercial law, the failure of existing theories of corporate governance to explain the actual behaviour of firms, and th...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Economic Theories of the Firm
• 3. Theory of Commercial Law: Past Approaches
• 4. Theory of Commercial Law: Management-based Commercial Law
• 5. Theories of Corporate Law and Corporations: Past Approaches
• 6. Legal and Economic Theories of Corporate Governance: Past Approaches
• 7. Theory of Corporate Governance: Proposed Legal Theory
• 8. Self-enforcing Governance Models
• 9. Corporate Governance and Innovation
• 10. Theory of Corporate Law: Proposed Theory.