CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Gorezi, Arnisa |
|---|---|
| Title | Shareholder Rights, Executive Compensation and Stakeholder Protection: A Comparative Overview of United States of America and Chosen EU Jurisdictions |
| Summary | The intensity of debates on corporate governance has increased significantly in the past decades. Problems deriving from the classical agency conflict in publicly held corporations, amongst which, most notably, the risk of low shareholder protection, violation of fiduciary duties, and regulation of executive compensation, have been persistent. Apart from this, the relation between the corporation and its stakeholders, a notion derived from a wider perception of corporate governance, opens up numerous related questions, from the definition of the ‘interest of the corporation’, to the dilemma as to whom are the agents` fiduciary duties owed in a stakeholder model. It is amidst these debates that this thesis analyzes, compares and critically assesses three inextricably linked, key aspects of corporate governance, namely: shareholder rights, executive compensation and stakeholder protection, in publicly held corporations in the U.S. and chosen EU jurisdictions. The research analyzes how these aspects are regulated so far, it finds the commonalities and differences in the approaches followed by the selected jurisdictions, and discovers the pertaining dilemmas, with regards to each of them. |
| Supervisor | Messmann Stefan |
| Department | Legal Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/gorezi_arnisa.pdf |
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