EC Regulation of Corporate Governance

Uses economic and reflexive governance theories to demonstrate how EC law achieves the necessary balance between integration and regulatory diversity.

Andrew Johnston (Author)

9780521876674, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 December 2009

418 pages
23.4 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.79 kg

Andrew Johnston examines EC regulation of national corporate governance systems through the lenses of economic theory and reflexive governance. By contrasting the normative demands of the neoclassical 'agency' model with those of the productive coalition model, he shows how their incompatibility required political compromise. Reflexive governance theory is then used to explain how progress has been possible. Through detailed analysis of both case law and positive regulation, the author highlights the move from positive to negative integration; the benefits as well as the limits of regulatory competition; and the significant role of reflexive techniques in both preventing market failure and enabling positive integration to proceed. The workable compromise that has emerged between market integration and continued regulatory diversity at national level demonstrates that procedural regulation can steer autonomous social subsystems towards greater responsibility and a better articulation of the public good.

1. Introduction
Part I. Theories of Corporate Governance: 2. The shareholder value model
3. The productive coalition model
Part II. Supranational Regulatory Techniques: 4. Harmonisation
5. Negative integration
6. Variety and integration: reflexive corporate governance regulation
Part III. EC Regulation of Corporate Governance: 7. The European company statute and the takeover directive
8. Capital market regulation
9. 'Labour law' regulation
10. 'Soft law'
11. Conclusion: the genius of EC corporate governance regulation.

Subject Areas: Jurisprudence & general issues [LA]