本书原定价250.00英镑，净重960克，非馆藏，全新。【图书分类：经济法】In this fourth edition, we can see that corporate governance is becoming a more vital and all-encompassing topic with each year. We all realise that the modern corporation is one of the most ingenious concepts ever devised. Our lives are dominated by corporations. We eat and breathe through them, we travel with them, we are entertained by them, most of us work there. Most corporations aim to add value to society and they very often do. Some, however, are exploiting, polluting, poisoning and impoverishing us. A lot depends on the commitment, direction and aims of a corporation’s founders, shareholders, boards and vital staff members. Do they show commitment to all stakeholders or to long-term shareholders only, or mainly to short-term shareholders? There are many variations of structure of corporations and boards within each country and between countries. All will agree that much depends on the personalities and commitment of the persons of influence in the corporation.
We see that everyone wants to be involved in ‘better corporate governance’: parliaments, governments, the European Commission, the SEC, the OECD, the UN’s Ruggie reports, the media, supervising national banks, shareholder activists and other stakeholders. The business world is getting more complex and overregulated, and there are more black swans, while good strategies can quite quickly become outdated.
Each country has its own measures; however, the chapters of this book show a convergence. The concept underlying the book is of a one-volume text containing a series of reasonably short, but sufficiently detailed, jurisdictional overviews that permit convenient comparisons, where a quick ‘first look’ at key issues would be helpful to general counsel and their clients.
About the Editor： Willem Calkoen specialises in mergers and acquisitions work – both public offers and private transactions – and in securities law and corporate governance. He has been involved in a variety of domestic and cross-border transactions, representing clients such as AT&T, General Electric, 3I, ICI, Knight Vinke and CalPERS, Perfetti Van Melle, Rexam, Smit Internationale, South African Paper Industries and Stork.
Mr Calkoen graduated from Utrecht University in 1970 and served as a naval reserve officer until 1972, when he joined NautaDutilh. He became a partner in 1980. He was chair of the Company Law Committee of the Section on Business Law (SBL) of the International Bar Association from 1988 to 1992; an officer of the SBL from 1993 to 1998; and chair of the SBL from 1997 to 1998.
Mr Calkoen publishes regularly on topics such as joint ventures and corporate governance. He has been identified as highly recommended in Pritchard’s European Legal 500 of 2004 and listed in Who’s Who Legal for the Netherlands under M&A and corporate governance. He is acknowledged by European Legal Experts 2005 as a corporate and commercial expert.
On 11 October 2011 Mr Calkoen defended his thesis, a comparative book on the corporate governance practices in the UK, US and the Netherlands.
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