Boards of directors in European companies : reshaping and harmonising their organisation and duties / edited by Hanne S. Birkmose, Mette Neville, Karsten Engsig Sørensen.
Title
Boards of directors in European companies : reshaping and harmonising their organisation and duties / edited by Hanne S. Birkmose, Mette Neville, Karsten Engsig Sørensen.
Publication
Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands : Kluwer Law International, [2013]
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-399).
Processing Action (note)
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Contents
Introduction / Hanne S. Birkmose, Mette Neville, Karsten Engsig Sørensen -- Mapping directors' duties : strategies and trends in the EU / Carsten Gerner-Beuerle & Edmund-Philipp Schuster -- Directors' conflicts of interest : a contribution to European governance / Paul Krüger Andersen & Dorthe Kristensen Balshøj -- Directors' duties in groups of companies : legalising the interest of the group at the European level / Pierre Henri Conac -- Directors' duties to engage shareholders / Hanne S. Birkmose -- The risk management duties of the board of directors / Christoph Van der Elst -- Directors' duties and corporate responsibility (CSR) / Beate Sjåfjell & Linn Anker-Sørensen -- The many roles of boards of SMEs / Mette Neville -- Independent directors : after the crisis / Wolf-Georg Ringe -- Active owners and accountable directors / Jesper Lau Hansen -- Nomination of members for the board of directors : a Swedish version of Wag the dog? / Jan Andersson -- The Europe wide movement towards a gender quota at board level / Christoph Teichmann & Carolin Langes -- Understanding the role of the board of directors : what is the right balance between managerial oversight and value creation? / Joseph A. McCahery, Erik P.M. Vermeulen & Masato Hisatake -- Disqualifying directors in the EU / Karsten Engsig Sørensen -- An overview of the executive renumeration issue across the crisis / Guido Ferrarini & Maria Cristina Ungureanu.