Tolley's Business Administration
This looseleaf service has been designed as a first point of reference for those involved in business and corporate administration. It provides an overview of all the legal and practical requirements of running a business, from the viewpoint of the administrator, company secretary or director. Areas covered include: administration of companies; company law; consumer protection; contracts; credit control and debt collection; document retention; employment; finance; health and safety; insurance; i...
Globalization has changed the nature of many markets. Previously protected local industries have been forced to become more competitive, a situation that provides both opportunities and challenges. Key among these is the challenge of implementing responsible business practices. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is widely recognized as a worthy commitment to ensure sustainable benefit for both corporations and communities. CSR is also becoming an important base for businesses to build trust a...
Studies have shown that the number of individuals being incarcerated for white-collar crime is on the rise, going hand-in-hand with an increase in support for punishment and imprisonment for white-collar offenders among the public. This book aims to discuss the role of the 'convenience triangle' in white-collar crime, how it affects the perpetration of these crimes, the impact of this on detection and prevention and the effects of the punitive measures taken against white-collar criminals. The...
This insightful book illustrates thirteen case studies demonstrating the convenience theory of white-collar crime. Offering an integrated deductive perspective through a convenience lens, Petter Gottschalk provides crucial insights into the motives, opportunities and behaviors behind executive deviance. Featuring a unique examination of era-defining cases of white-collar crime, from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to the Olympus scandal, Gottschalk closely follows legal accounts to paint an...
Principled Governance when Everything Matters is an essential handbook for Directors, Managers, Counsellors and Students, indeed for everyone challenged to answer the question: How do we get along? The democratic world has taken half a millennium to shift its governing principle from the power of might to the rule of law. Through centuries of errors (and trials), we have created a framework of regulation, accountability, and oversight, which, though now widely practiced, is still poorly underst...
Disregard of the Corporate Fiction and Allied Corporation Problems
by I. Maurice Wormser
During the 1980s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert was the Billionaire Junk Bond King. He invented such things as “the highly confident letter” (I’m highly confident that I can raise the money you need to buy company X) and “the blind pool” (Here’s a billion dollars: let us help you buy a company), and he financed the biggest corporate raiders—men like Carl Icahn and Ronald Perelman. And then, on September 7, 1988, things changed. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Milke...
The Law and Economics of Corporate Governance
ICSA Study Text
ICSA Study Text
Business Basics for Law Students (Essentials for law students)
by Robert W. Hamilton and Richard A Booth
Anti-Money Laundering Compliance and the Legal Profession (The Law of Financial Crime)
by Sarah Kebbell
Money laundering is a global issue and there is evidence that the services provided by the legal profession may be misused to launder the proceeds of crime. This book explores the experiences of professionals within Top 50 law firms when seeking to comply with the UK’s anti-money laundering (AML) regime. The book draws upon empirical evidence from 40 in-depth interviews with solicitors and compliance personnel from 20 Top 50 law firms. Access to this section of the legal profession is challengi...
Tax Aspects of the Purchase and Sale of a Private Company's Shares
Tax Aspects of the Purchase and Sale of a Private Company's Shares ties together in one informative book the ever-increasing legislation, case law and extra-statutory material that tax advisers need to be aware of when purchasing and selling shares in private companies. Practical and userfriendly, this popular title provides the tax planning solutions that are sound from a commercial and tax perspective, but also strike a happy medium between the buyer's and the seller's expectations. This indis...
International Traffic in Arms Regulation (Itar)
by Jeffrey W Bennett and Department of State
Business, Human Rights and Transitional Justice (Transitional Justice)
by Irene Pietropaoli
This book considers the efficacy of transitional justice mechanisms in response to corporate human rights abuses. Corporations and other business enterprises often operate in countries affected by conflict or repressive regimes. As such, they may become involved in human rights violations and crimes under international law ‒ either as the main perpetrators or as accomplices by aiding and abetting government actors. Transitional justice mechanisms, such as trials, truth commissions, and reparati...
International Documents on Corporate Responsibility
The changing social expectations of corporations within a globalised economic environment are challenging our traditional conception of the proper commercial function. This text delimits their emergent roles and responsibilities under international law. International Documents on Corporate Responsibility includes the principal international, regional and national instruments drafted by intergovernmental organisations or states as well as codes of conduct formulated by industry associations, tr...
Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility (Corporations, Globalisation and the Law)
This book examines the concepts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of globalisation and its many challenges, focusing on different legal perspectives that arise. Particular problems presented include the varied definitions of CSR and the related dilemmas of opting for a self-regulatory approach or a greater level of external regulatory control. The roles of the state and the market and how they interrelate are considered in this book against a background of increased inter...
The Constitutionalization of the Global Corporate Sphere
by Grahame F. Thompson
Reframing Corporate Governance - Company Law Beyond Law and Economics
by Javier Reyes
This stimulating book offers an astute analysis of corporate governance from both a historical and a philosophical point of view. Exploring how the modern corporation developed, from Ancient Rome and the Middle Ages up to the present day, Javier Reyes identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the mainstream theory of the firm as put forward by the law and economics school of thought. Demystifying the scientific aspirations of neoclassical economics as understood and used by legal scholars, th...