Communicating company objectives

Knowing and understanding company objectives will not help employees solve every work-related problem, but, in the long run, such knowledge will contribute to more efficient and productive operations.     

Chronicles of an information company

The birth and growth of a US West Coast information company is chronicled from its beginning as a part-time partnership to its status five years later as a small but profitable corporation providing information services to Government agencies as well as graduate students. Documentation Associates provides a search and retrieval service that includes brokering on-line data-base searches, and the investment required to set up and maintain this kind of operation is described. Some information-broker policies are discussed, e.g. service types, pricing methods, and the reasons for the wide disparity in data-base search prices are examined. The policies of Documentation Associates in the operation of its broker service are presented.     

公司本质论纲——公司法理论体系逻辑起点解读

对公司本质的承诺直接决定着公司法理论的走向。本文从超越“唯一本质观”出发 ,全面评述了法人拟制说、法人否认说和法人实在说的理论优势和局限及其对立法实践的影响。在此基础上 ,介绍了“公司的合同理论”的基本主张 ,系统分析了该种公司本质观的理论优势 ,认为对公司本质的这种承诺必将引发公司法研究的整体转向 ,为公司法研究提供一个极具潜力的理论生长点。     

Regulatory competition in European company law

States have customarily tended to compete with one another. Not always, however, is this tendency, or the underlying methods put to use, obvious. That states (provincial divisions in the US) were competing to attract incorporations by relaxing their regulatory standards, couldn’t be seriously observed and highlighted until mid-1970s. Today, a few would doubt the existence of regulatory competition in corporate law in the US. In this paper, the author examines the issue whether the EU is (likely to be) engaged in regulatory competition in the area of company law. Answering the question in affirmative, the author proceeds to examine the strength of the race to the bottom and the race to the top theories, as developed and argued in the US, for the European setting. Since the legal systems of Member States of the EU have certain very disparate “core values” along which those systems have historically developed, relaxation of standards in the EU would take place against different variables. Because of the multitude of variables, comparable variables are unlikely to yield comparable results; either of the race theories is unlikely to satisfactorily predict the regulatory behaviour of EU Member States. Instead, since “laxation” in respect of one variable would be met by “optimisation” in respect of the other, there is likely to be simultaneous races to the top and to the bottom among the EU Member States.     

The cross holding of company shares

Cross shareholding is a practice whereby pairs of companies exchange holding of shares. It is vitally important to recognize that cross shareholding has both positive and negative effects, the latter of which demand particular scrutiny. This article tries to suggest a possible framework for the regulation of cross shareholding in China, by mainly applying lessons and implications from the experiences of Japan, where cross-holding has contributed to the spike and collapse of its economy. Currency appreciation, accounting rules changes and capital market restructuring are putting China in the similar shoes. Targeting at different situations, hereby a spectrum of rules has been proposed.     

Disclosure obligations of the newly public healthcare company: practical strategies for the company and its counsel

Founders of healthcare companies, like entrepreneurs in general, dream of the opportunity to take their companies public. The benefits flowing from access to the public markets, however, carry with them additional responsibilities that are enforceable both by the regulatory authorities and the well-organized plaintiffs' securities bar. The authors of this Article provide the newly public company and its counsel extensive guidance for the navigation of this regulatory maze.     

论公司担保之可行性及其限制——兼论我国公司担保制度之缺失与完善

两岸对公司担保之立法不一,祖国大陆的公司法基本上认可公司担保,但对其并无合理限制。我国的公司法针对此不足,文章在分析公司担保之理论可行性的同时,就公司担保的限制及我国公司担保立法的完善进行了阐述。     

Commercial and company law and sustainable development

This paper reviews key areas of commercial and company law that are relevant to sustainable development. It includes an overview of international and regional frameworks, and examines good practice in national laws in the specific areas of company law, securities law and corporate insolvency. It does so with a view to providing conclusions and recommendations that represent a starting point for Commonwealth member countries when engaging with law reform and strengthening in the area of commercial law. The recommendations aim, in particular, at supporting law reform that enables commercial law frameworks to make a clear contribution to attainment of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.     

论公司相互持股的法律规制

公司相互持股已经成为我国必须认真面对的一个问题,但相应的立法却十分薄弱,难以发挥实质的规制作用。因此在修订公司法过程中,应当借鉴发达国家的有益经验,引进相应制度,强化相互持股的公司的程序性义务、限制相互持股的股东表决权、完善相关的配套制度,实现对公司相互持股的有效规制。     

论公司利益的刑法保护

公司是市场经济的主要主体。我国缺乏公司法律制度传统 ,公司利益的法律保障机制尤其是刑法保障机制十分薄弱。本文通过分析我国刑法中针对公司利益保护的立法与司法实践 ,借鉴国外公司刑法的立法经验 ,提出了改革我国刑法中有关公司利益保护的立法和司法建议。     

中国公司治理结构的改进建议

世界上公司治理结构存在英美、德国、日本三种典型立法模式,各有利弊优劣,而中国公司治理结构的现行立法模式是集三者之大成,理应趋利避害、更胜一筹,但实际运行结果却不令人乐观。问题既在于中国公司法律规范不够明确、具体,缺乏可操作性,更在于中国公司治理结构在总体架构上存在严重缺陷,在实际中表现出"大股东操纵股东会"、"董事会形同虚设"、"独立董事不独立"、"监事会不监事"等突出问题。本着"立足现实,尊重科学"的思想,本文从基本层面对这些问题进行了分析,并在此基础上提出了解决这些问题的建议。     

一人公司信用法律规范之阐析

法律信用是社会发展到一定历史时期的产物。一人公司信用的缺失,既扰乱了市场经济秩序,影响了交易市场的健康快速发展,也增加了交易风险,不利于对交易相对人利益的保护。故一人公司立法的关键就是要解决一人公司信用的规制问题。针对一人公司信用机制缺失的风险,新公司法采取有效措施从事前、事中、事后三个阶段来建立和完善一人公司的信用调节机制,有利于消除其不利影响,为社会信用体系的建构提供交易安全保障。     

Teaching company law to business students: an effective framework

Business students learning company law face a number of unique challenges. Therefore, instructors who teach company law to business students must carefully consider how their courses will meet these unique needs. This article will reflect on the challenges faced by business students studying company law before going on to consider how these challenges can be overcome. This work emphasises the importance of focusing on the learning outcomes of business students undertaking company law and the need for the module to be structured in order to meet the learning outcomes that provide business students with an understanding of the key principles relating to company law and its role and influence on business decision-making. Recommendations in relation to engaging business students with company law will also be provided.     

论保险公司对合同相关人的社会责任

保险公司因其与公众的利益相关性程度较高,所以有助于维护社会的稳定与安全,同时他又对社会具有较强的依赖性,因而,适度要求保险公司担负一定的社会责任不仅符合其自身长远利益以及社会目标,而且有助于弥补保险法律法规不完备的现实问题,有助于在保险业界营造一种诚实守信、利己利人的经营氛围。