Corporate Theory and Corporate Law Reform in Australia
Agenda: A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 179-188, 1994
9 Pages Posted: 18 Jul 2009
Date Written: 1994
Abstract
Australian corporate law has been the subject of significant reform. This includes: (a) increased duties imposed upon company directors; (b) regulation of transactions between public companies and their related parties; (c) increased disclosure requirements for public companies; (d) new liability upon parent companies where a subsidiary trades while it is insolvent; and (e) a wider definition of insider trading. In this paper, the author evaluates some of these reforms in the light of theories of the corporation - particularly the managerialist (or institutionalist theory) and the contractual theory. The author also discusses the costs associated with some of the reforms.
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