Working Within Two Kinds of Capitalism

This text compares the corporate governance structures of the US quoted company and its European equivalent and the role which employees as non-shareholding stakeholders hold within those structures. It focuses on the incidents of ownership normally exercised by stakeholders and raises questions regarding different responses to the issue of mandated labour market regulation on both sides of the Atlantic. The text considers theoretical and practical issues raised in this context.

Auteur

Professor Irene Lynch-Fannon is a graduate of UCD (BCL 1982); Oxford University (BCL 1986, Senior Scholar, Somerville College) and the University of Virginia (Doctor of Juridical Science 1999). She qualified as a Solicitor in Ireland in 1985. She has taught Company Law and Employment Law in the Department of Law at UCC since 1987.

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Introduction

1. The Corporation and Its Employees
2. Firm Theories and Employees as Stakeholders
3. The European Experience: Policy
4. The European Experience: Legislation
5. US Models for Improved Governance
6. The Theoretical Debate
7. The Ethical Corporation
8. Comparative Ownership Structures
9. Corporate Governance and Responsibility
10. The Global Corporation: Does Governance Matter?
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