Corporate Governance and Directors' Liabilities

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Chapter I. Theoretical Framework and Legal Foundations -- The Legal Development of Corporate Responsibility / LORD WEDDERBURN OF CHARLTON -- The Economic Context of Corporate Social Responsibility / MASHAW, JERRY L. -- Responsibility in Corporate Action: A Sociologist's View / COLEMAN, JAMES S. -- Chapter II. Strategies of Institutionalizing Corporate Social Responsibility -- Corporate Social Responsibility: Interests and Goals / KRAUSE, DETLEF -- Public Interest Representation: Economic and Social Policy Inside the Enterprise / STONE, CRISTOPHER D . -- Chapter III. Directors' Duties and Liabilities -- Corporate Fiduciary Duties and Their Beneficiaries / TEUBNER, GUNTHER -- The Economic Functions of Corporate Liability / KRAAKMAN, REINIER -- Board Members' Liability for Damages / GOMARD, BERNHARD -- The Private Law Enforcement of Directors' Duties / BOYLE, ANTHONY J . -- Chapter IV. Disclosure and Social Reporting -- Self-Dealing and Use of Corporate Opportunity and Information: Regulating Directors' Conflicts of Interest / HOPT, KLAUS J . -- Disclosure as Preventive Enforcement / LOSS, LOUIS -- Disclosure, Insider Information and Capital Market Functions / SCHMIDT, HARTMUT -- Corporate Social Reporting and Auditing: Theory and Practice / DIERKES, MEINOLF -- Rescue Operations in Business Crises / STEIN, JOHANN HEINRICH V. -- Chapter V. Outside Representation on the Boards: Conflicts of Interest -- The Enterprise as a Political System / STEINMANN, HORST -- Dual Loyalty of Labor Representatives / KÜBLER, FRIEDRICH -- Annex -- Biographical Sketches of the Authors -- Table of Cases -- Index -- Backmatter