scholarly journals Recent developments in BRIC’s corporate governance with a focus on Russia – Innovation or imitation?

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udo C. Braendle
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Draft Code ◽  
Bric Countries ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Code Of Corporate Governance

The practice of joint-stock companies in Russia and other BRIC countries suggests that the development of the corporate sector and the stock market requires a corporate governance level of the companies that corresponds to international standards. The Russian Code of Corporate Conduct was implemented in 2002 and has not been revised for many years. The same is true for Codes of other BRIC countries. 2013 the situation has changed. Russia published a Draft Code of Corporate Governance that should reflect the changes in Russian Corporate Governance over the last 10 years. The paper critically analyses this draft code and gives implications about the future of corporate governance in Russia. We are doing so in comparing Russian Corporate Governance Initiatives with those of other BRIC countries.

The Volatility of Sovereign Wealth Funds

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1850172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Grennes
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Energy Prices ◽  
Sovereign Wealth Funds ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Recession ◽  
Steady Growth ◽  
Recent Developments

This paper evaluates sovereign wealth funds in light of the extreme volatility of energy prices and the severe global recession that began in 2008. A recent paper by Das characterized the assets of funds as showing steady growth in the past and likely increased importance in the future. However, recent developments have reduced the relative importance of funds and have demonstrated the sensitivity of the funds to energy prices and world business cycles. Investments by sovereign wealth funds have the potential to introduce political influence into corporate governance, but this potential is much smaller than the interventions into corporate governance by governments of the United States and elsewhere connected to corporate bail-outs during the recession. Lack of transparency remains a problem for certain sovereign wealth funds, but anti-recession interventions by governments have been characterized by extreme lack of transparency.

Recent Developments of Corporate Governance in the European Union and their Impact on the German Legal System

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 1275-1294
Author(s):  
Athanasios Kouloridas ◽  
Jens von Lackum
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Company Law ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Eu

The collapses of several US-businesses like those of Enron and Worldcom and a number of scandals in the EU – in the recent past that of Parmalat – have strongly affected public confidence in the operation and governance of large entities trading their shares in organized capital markets. The European Commission reacted by issuing the Action Plan on Modernizing Company Law and Enhancing Corporate Governance in the EU on 21 May 2003. The Action Plan contains measures which the Commission wants to implement over the short term (until 2005), medium term (until 2008) and long term (until 2010). The key issues set up in the Action Plan concern corporate governance, capital maintenance, recapitalization as well as decreasing capital, groups of companies, international corporate restructuring and the introduction of a new legal form of incorporation. The fact that the big rating agencies have begun to rate the corporate governance performances of major companies, can well be seen as a further indicator that good corporate governance has an important concern for managers, shareholders and for policy makers. As part of the Action Plan, the Commission has recently launched consultations on board responsibilities and improving financial and corporate governance information, on directors’ remuneration and on the role of (independent) non-executive or supervisory directors. In the light of these recent consultations and the results of the public consultation on the Action Plan, this Article offers an overview and assessment of the corporate governance measures planned at Community level.

The Evolution of Corporate Form

2019 ◽  
pp. 686-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Deakin
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Conceptual Foundation ◽  
Corporate Form ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
The Commons ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Corporate Personality

This chapter focuses on the evolution of the concept of corporate personality in English law. Recent developments in experiments with legal organizational forms are injecting diversity into the relative monoculture of the corporate form. Two threads are of particular interest in this chapter. The first concerns the creation of hybrid legal structures for “social enterprise.” The second stems from a revival of interest in cooperative structures, particularly in tandem with the digital economy. The chapter places these two threads in dialogue with Simon Deakin’s recent stimulating argument that the commons provides the most convincing conceptual foundation for understanding corporate governance.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document