The Form of the Firm unveils the nature of the corporation as it exists in modern liberal societies. What are we to make of the power that corporations wield over people in modern society? Is such power legitimate? Many think so. To many businessmen and economists, as well as the general public, firms are purely private and economic entities, justified in using all legal means to maximize profit. In The Form of the Firm, Abraham Singer contends that such a view rests on a theoretical foundation that, while quite subtle, is deeply flawed. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, corporations are not natural outgrowths of the free market. Instead, Singer invites us to see corporations as political institutions that correct market inefficiencies through mechanisms normally associated with government -hierarchy, power, and state-sanctioned authority. Corporations exist primarily to increase economic efficiency, but they do this in ways that distinguish them from the markets in which they operate. Corporations serve economic ends, but through political means. Because of this, Singer argues that they also must be structured and obliged to uphold the social and political values that enable their existence and smooth-running in the first place: individual autonomy, moral and social equality, and democratic norms and institutions. A profound and timely rethinking of what a corporation actually is and how power within it ought to be structured and exercised, The Form of the Firm will reshape our understanding of political theory, corporate governance, corporate law, and business ethics.

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The knowledge of business laws is very important for the survival and growth of any organisation. This comprehensive and well-written book, in its Fifth Edition, continues to present a thorough discussion of various legal topics such as contract laws, corporate laws, labour legislations, taxation laws and the related Acts, including the Sale of Goods Act, 1930, the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, the Consumer Protection Act, 1986, the Insurance Act, 1938, the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008, the Companies Act, 2013, the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, the Information Technology Act, 2000, the Environment Protection Act, 1986, the Right to Information Act, 2005, the Right to Education Act, 2009, the National Food Security Act, 2013 and other important Acts. The book contains many practical examples and studies of different law cases, which make it more interesting and authentic. In addition, the book incorporates chapter-end questions. Moreover, mind maps provided in most of the chapters give readers a brief idea about the concepts discussed. More practical exercises in the form of case studies in the questions section and format of a number of documents make the book quite informative. The book is primarily designed for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of management and other related courses for their subject Business Law. Besides, the professionals and legal practitioners will also find the book very useful.

Unter Verzicht auf juristische Detaildiskussion gibt der Autor allen Unternehmern, Vorstanden, Geschaftsfuhrern und Aufsichtsraten einen praktischen Leitfaden zur schnellen Erfassung kartellrechtlicher Fragestellungen (Wettbewerbsbeschrankungen, Missbrauchskontrolle, Fusionskontrolle) an die Hand. Das erste Kartellrechtsbuch fur Praktiker. Es enthalt bereits die Neuregelungen der 8. GWB-Novelle.

This area of practice requires consideration of topics across both substantive and procedural law. The topics addressed include injunctions required to preserve assets and prevent undue dissipation by parties facing claims, orders seeking to trace misappropriated property, applications to set aside fraudulent transfers of property, orders for the disclosure of assets and transfers, shareholder protection and fraud, remedies for reckless or fraudulent trading, multi-jurisdiction issues facing litigants in this area and various common law and equitable remedies to set aside fraudulent payments and transfers.

As an expansion of the book "Construction Dispute Research" published in 2014, this book presents further contributions and breaks into three new research foci in construction dispute studies. Part A discusses the conceptualization and minimization of biases in construction dispute decisions; Part B examines other impediments against settlement such as inequity, power asymmetry and loss aversion. Part C focuses on realty check of construction dispute negotiation conditions such as market competition, interdependence of contracting parties and dispute avoidance function of construction incentivization. This book showcases new ideas in construction dispute research. It offers research studies that are theory rich and conducted with robust methodologies. The research implications are practical and implementable.

Das vorliegende Werk stellt eine ganzheitliche, wissenschaftliche Analyse des Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR) und seiner innerstaatlichen Umsetzung dar. Dabei werden Zweifelsfragen, die Regelungen zum automatischen Informationsaustausch sowie die oekonomischen (Fehl)Interpretationsmoeglichkeiten analysiert. Sich ergebende Divergenzen der innerstaatlichen Regelung zu den OECD-Umsetzungsvorschlagen und den Vorgaben der angepassten EU-Amtshilferichtlinie werden aufgezeigt. Diesbezugliche Zweifelsfragen werden umfassend aufbereitet, um hieraus konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen fur berichtspflichtige Unternehmen abzuleiten.

Christa Kolodej und Petra Smutny zeigen Handlungsmoeglichkeiten fur Fuhrungskrafte und Personalverantwortliche bei Mobbing in ihrem Einflussbereich auf. Mobbing wird als kontextbezogenes Phanomen vorgestellt, welches spezifische macht-, gruppen- und rollendynamische Prozesse aufweist. Es werden sowohl aus psychologischer als auch aus juristischer Sicht relevante Interventionen verdeutlicht. Das Buch wird mit praktischen Praventions- und Interventionstipps fur Fuhrungskrafte abgerundet, die aus Best-Practice-Beispielen von Fuhrungskraften abgeleitet wurden. Die Autorinnen: Prof. Dr. Dr. Christa Kolodej, MA ist Pionierin der oesterreichischen Mobbingforschung und leitet seit 20 Jahren das Zentrum fur Konflikt- und Mobbingberatung in Wien. Sie coacht Fuhrungskrafte und Personalverantwortliche und unterstutzt Unternehmen bei der Implementierung von Konfliktmanagementsystemen. Maga Petra Smutny, LL.M, ist Rechtsanwaltin und eingetragene Mediatorin in Wien, OEsterreich, und beschaftigte sich als Richterin, Vorsitzende der Gleichbehandlungskommission und Autorin seit vielen Jahren mit den Themen Mobbing, Antidiskriminierung und Fuhrungsverhalten.

Das Lehrbuch liefert einen logisch strukturierten und gut verstandlichen Einstieg in die facettenreiche Materie des oeffentlichen Wirtschaftsrechts. Es vermittelt einen systematischen UEberblick uber die wichtigsten Formen staatlichen Handelns bei wirtschaftlichen Aktivitaten und die Schwerpunktbereiche dieses Rechtsgebiets, aus dem europaische wie internationale Bezuge nicht mehr wegzudenken sind. Ausgehend von den wirtschaftsverfassungsrechtlichen Grundlagen werden das allgemeine sowie ausgewahlte Bereiche des besonderen Wirtschaftsverwaltungsrechts behandelt und mit Fragen des Rechtsschutzes verknupft. Wiederholungsfragen mit Fallbeispielen zu jedem Kapitel geben die Moeglichkeit, den Lernfortschritt im Selbststudium zu kontrollieren.Die Kombination aus wissenschaftlich fundierter Darstellung und praxisorientierter Aufbereitung bietet einen thematischen Zuschnitt, der fur Studierende wie Praktiker gleichermassen geeignet ist.

This casebook covers domestic and international sales law as well as important aspects of the law governing transport and payments relating to sales contracts. Topics covered in each chapter are introduced with detailed descriptions of relevant law and examples. Cases and numerous problems are integrated with the descriptive material to isolate and apply important content of relevant statutory provisions. The mix of problems and cases accommodates different teaching styles. This third edition updates the materials and cases, particularly with respect to international sales law.

Creative Expression and the Law helps readers better comprehend the legal pitfalls that can present themselves when artists and content creators are generating ideas, producing content and protecting and defending their creative work. In doing so, the book provides a deeper, more targeted examination of copyright, trademark and right of publicity law than is found in standard communication law texts. This examination focuses on how courts scrutinize and apply law to works of artwork and other forms of creative expression and how the constitutional strength of a First Amendment defense can vary across the legal and artistic landscape. The text approaches law as an evolving story shaped by the U.S. Constitution and its commitment to freedom of speech. It draws connections among the various legal areas and explains the purpose and development of each area of law. A set of lively cases that involve iconic brands, celebrities and expressive works are used to illustrate legal standards. Infographics and visual examples of creative work that found itself at the center of legal disputes help readers visualize abstract legal principles and rulings. These images are an important part of the text given the role that visual cues play in helping content creators learn, retain and utilize information.

Looking at discrimination, education, environment, health and crime, this volume analyses United States Supreme Court rulings on several legal issues and proposed libertarian solutions to each problem. Setting their own liberal theory of law, each chapter discusses the law at hand, what it should be, and what it would be if their political economic philosophy were the justification of the legal practice. Covering issues such as sexual harassment, religion, markets in human organs, drug prohibition and abortion, this book is a timely contribution to classical liberal debate on law and economics.

This book is the first detailed and comprehensive research of the history of the Cape Town Convention and its protocols. It critically engages with the challenges faced by the developers of this treaty, analyses thousands of pages of archived materials and derives important lessons for the development of transnational commercial law globally. The book is an invaluable addition to the existing literature on the Cape Town Convention. It also informs the debate about harmonisation of secured transactions regimes generally, and as such will be of interest to academics, legal practitioners and the judiciary involved in secured transactions law around the world. Practising lawyers will better understand the rationale behind the key provisions of the Cape Town Convention, while the treaty-making lessons will assist governmental officials, representatives of international organisations and legal advisors engaged in harmonisation of commercial law. The text covers all four protocols to the Cape Town Convention, including the MAC Protocol adopted on 22 November 2019 in Pretoria.

This coursebook, written by a top scholar in the business law area, contains the complete summary of the leading theories of business ethics today. The book's approach to business ethics aims to clarify values, to create ethical awareness, to provide a decision-making model, and to address how to build ethical business cultures. This book is designed to help students create a skill in ethical decision-making and building ethical culture. The book draws students into the material by providing experiences that allow them to tell their own stories and to define their own business ethics. It provides student examples of how to apply the frameworks and decision-making models so that the "how-to" is clear. The new edition has been updated to make it more relevant and interesting to business ethics students. This edition dramatically expands coverage of issues pertaining to gender equity and related to race relations and diversity issues. The third edition also introduces an entirely new section on white collar crime as well as expanded treatment of behavioral ethics: how our psychological, cognitive biases undermine our ability to make good decisions. The eBook text Ethics Vignettes accompanies the coursebook, and contains different examples of real life ethical situations in the business world. It features more than 75 vignettes related to seven different industries and ten different business school disciplines, and remains an important component to the third edition.

Receive complimentary lifetime digital access to the eBook with new print purchase. A collection of uniform and federal laws used in secured transactions courses. Includes the UCC (with the concordance comparing revised Article 9 to the previous version), pertinent PEB commentaries and reports, Uniform Voidable Transactions Act, Food Security Act, Federal Tax Lien Statute, and the Bankruptcy Code.

Dieses essential vermittelt einen Einblick in die Grundlagen von Smart Contracts. Smart Contracts sind kleine Computerprogramme, die vor allem im Zusammenhang mit der Blockchain-Technologie zum Einsatz kommen. Mit ihnen lassen sich Vertrage digital abbilden, uberprufen und automatisiert vollziehen. Die damit verbundenen Potenziale sind bei weitem noch nicht ausgeschoepft, doch schon jetzt finden sich zahlreiche Anwendungsmoeglichkeiten. Allerdings werfen Smart Contracts auch eine Reihe rechtlicher Fragen auf. Die Autoren erlautern die Bedeutung und die Struktur von Smart Contracts und geben einen Einblick in deren rechtliche Handhabung.

This statutory supplement is designed for use in law school courses covering agency, partnerships, corporations, and other limited liability entities. In particular, the supplement compiles the statutes, regulations, and uniform or model acts needed for the use of the casebook, The Law of Business Organizations: Cases, Materials, and Problems (14th ed. 2020), by Professors Jonathan R. Macey and Douglas K. Moll. The materials included in this supplement are generally presented in one of three manners. First, for state and federal statutes and regulations that have no accompanying comments, the statutory text is reprinted in its entirety. Examples of such materials include the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, and selected sections of the New York Business Corporation Law. Second, for some uniform or model acts, the statutory text and comments are reprinted in their entirety. Such materials include the Revised Uniform Partnership Act (1997 and 2013), the Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (1976 with 1985 amendments), the Uniform Limited Partnership Act (2001 and 2013), the Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (1996), and the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (2006 and 2013). Third, for Restatements and some uniform or model acts, the statutory text is reprinted in its entirety, but only selected comments (if any) are included. Examples of such materials include the Restatement (Second) of Agency (1958), the Restatement (Third) of Agency (2006), the Uniform Partnership Act (1914), and the Model Business Corporation Act.

Receive complimentary lifetime digital access to the eBook with new print purchase. A collection of uniform and federal laws used in sales and contracts courses. Includes UCC Articles 1, 2, 2A, and 7, pertinent PEB commentaries, UETA, E-SIGN, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and regulations, and the CISG. Also includes the pre-2001 version of Article 1 to facilitate study of older cases.

The secured transactions outline discusses coverage of Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Article 9 and the creation of a security interest, including attachment, security agreements, value, and the debtor's rights in the collateral. Also included are perfection, filing, priorities, bankruptcy proceedings and Article 9, default proceedings, and bulk transfers.

Das Buch zeigt die Grundlagen der Internen Revision, mit Blick auf die Compliance. Der Rechtsteil behandelt wesentliche Rechtsfragen beider Unternehmensfunktionen. Der operative Teil orientiert sich an den typischen Revisionsaufgaben und Revisionsprozessen im privatwirtschaftlichen und im oeffentlichen Kontext - mit Spiegelung zu den Aufgaben der Compliance. Der Fokus liegt auf einer pragmatisch-praxistauglichen Darstellung, Erlauterung und Umsetzung der Berufsgrundlagen und Best Practices der Internen Revision. Das Werk bietet eine fundierte UEbersicht uber die Grundlagen und die Ursprunge der Compliance- und Revisionsarbeit - und geht dabei auf erfrischende Weise uber den sonst ublichen rein rechtlichen Rahmen hinaus. Der Bezug auf aktuelle Themen, verbunden mit einer direkten und offenen Auseinandersetzung mit Fehlern und Schwachstellen im System der Unternehmenscompliance, machen das Buch zu einer sehr lesenswerten Lekture.Joerg Nierhaus, LL.M., Chief Compliance Officer, Essen

The new edition of this popular casebook is thoroughly updated and refreshed, adding nine new cases and numerous notes to replace old ones and address additional issues. The objectives of the Eighth Edition remain very much the same as they were for its predecessors. First, to help the student develop the skills of statutory analysis by engaging with a comprehensive Code that contains critical definitions and numerous cross references. Second, to help the student understand the substantive law of sales. The materials consist of cases, text, notes, questions, and problems. The cases have been selected for their effectiveness as teaching materials. The text and notes explain the business background of the disputes. The questions push the student to understand and, often, challenge the reasoning of the courts. The problems require the student to apply the learning of the cases to new situations. The student must master the intricacies of the Code and dig deeply into the language of the statute and the Official Comments, working back and forth among the various sections that are relevant to the solution. The book is suitable for use in both upper-level and first-year courses. For teachers who so prefer, the course can be taught almost entirely through use of the problems.

This edited collection fills a significant gap in the literature by gathering contributions from the most prominent academics and practitioners of aid and procurement. It explores the economic, political and legal relationship between procurement and aid effectiveness in developing countries, and takes stock of current debates in the field. More specifically, the contributions analyse the failures and successes of current initiatives to foster effectiveness and streamline the aid procurement process, and address current themes emerging in the literature related to development, procurement and aid success. A pivotal and timely publication, Public Procurement and Aid Effectiveness will be of interest to a varied and multicultural international audience and a wide range of actors working on aid effectiveness, development, procurement and good governance initiatives in both donor and beneficiary countries.