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  title info:
    title: German Corporate Governance in International and European Context
  name:
    name part: du Plessis, Jean J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Großfeld, Bernhard.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Luttermann, Claus.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Saenger, Ingo.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Sandrock, Otto.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Casper, Matthias.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2012
    edition: 2nd ed. 2012.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XLII, 502 p. online resource.
  abstract: Corporate governance encompasses the free enterprise system, which is treated comprehensively in this book from a German perspective. This distinguishes the book from other books written in English in this subject area, not only because of the comprehensive way it covers German corporate law and corporate governance, but also because of the fact that it provides international and European perspectives on these important topics. This second edition is an extensively revised and updated version of the first edition, in particular with a view to the worldwide debt crisis. The authors provide readers with an overview of the unique features of German business and enterprise law and an in-depth analysis of the organs of governance of German public limited companies (general meeting, management board, supervisory board). In addition, approaches for reforms required at the international level are also suggested and discussed, including, among others, the unique interplay and dynamics of the German two-tier board model with the system of codetermination, referring to the arrangement of employees sitting on the supervisory boards of German public limited companies and private companies employing more than 500 employees; also covered are significant recent legal developments in Europe. The book highlights the core function of valuation and financial reporting at the international, European and German levels, with accounting as the documentary proof of good corporate governance. It also expands the scope of the first edition by a treatment of the German financial sector, global corporate finance and governance, and by including a new chapter on compliance of corporate governance laws, rules and standards in Germany. As far as comparative law is concerned, new developments in the area of corporate governance in the EU, the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and corporate governance in the US, the UK and Australia are covered. The book is addressed to researchers, practition…
  table of contents: An Overview of German Business or Enterprise Law and the One-Tier and Two-Tier Board Systems Contrasted -- An Overview of the Corporate Governance Debate in Germany -- The General Meeting and the Management Board as Company Organs -- The Supervisory Board as Company Organ -- The German System of Supervisory Codetermination by Employees -- The Impact of European Development on German Codetermination and German Corporate Law -- Accounting as the Documentary Proof of Good Corporate Governance -- Banking on Trust: The German Financial Sector, Global Capital Markets and Corporate Finance and Governance -- Corporate Governance and Corporate Compliance -- Corporate Governance in the EU, the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and Corporate Governance in Selected Other Jurisdictions -- European and German Provisions in English for Purposes of Chapter 7.
  note: by Jean J. du Plessis, Bernhard Großfeld, Claus Luttermann, Ingo Saenger, Otto Sandrock, Matthias Casper.
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: Corporate governance
  subject:
    topic: Commercial law
  subject:
    topic: Private international law
  subject:
    topic: Conflict of laws
  subject:
    topic: International law
  subject:
    topic: Comparative law
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law
  subject:
    topic: Commercial Law
  subject:
    topic: Corporate Governance
  classification: K7000-7720.22
  classification: K7073-7078
  classification: 340.9
  classification: 340.2
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      title: Springer eBooks
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