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Corporate Governance Programme

Programme Director: Simon Deakin

Project: Pension Fund Governance and Socially Responsible Investment

Project leader: Simon Deakin
Research Associates: John Buchanan (CBR), Dominic Chai (Manchester Business School), Andrew Johnston (University of Queensland), Sue Konzelmann (Department of Management, Birkbeck College, London), Wanjiru Njoya (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford)
Project dates: 2007-11
Funding: Belspo (Belgian Science Foundation); additional funding from the Japanese Ministry of Education COE grant to ITEC, Doshisha University, and the CBR

Overview   |    Output

Articles

Johnston, A. (2008) 'Review of Veljanovski: Economic Principles of Law' Modern Law Review, 71: 499-504.

Konzelmann, S. (2009) 'Corporate governance and employment relations: the competing logic of markets and the management of production.' Australian Journal of Labour Law, 22: 109-115.


Books

Johnston, A. (2009) EC Regulation of Corporate Governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).


Chapters

Aridi, R. Craypo, C., Konzelmann, S., and Wilkinson, F. (2009) 'The export of varieties of capitalism: the cases of Wal-Mart and IKEA', in N. Coe and N. Wrigley (eds.) The Globalizaton of Retailing in M. Casson (ed.) Globalization of the World Economy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar: 2009).

Deakin, S. (2010) 'Inside pension fund governance', in P. Thornton (ed.) Good Governance for Pension Schemes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), forthcoming.

Deakin, S. and Njoya, W. (2008) 'The legal framework of employment relations', in P. Blyton, N. Bacon, J. Fiorito and E. Heery et al. (eds) Handbook of Industrial Relations (London: Sage), 284-304.

Johnston, A. (2008) 'Takeovers' in P. Cane and J. Conaghan (eds), The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford: OUP).


Working Papers

Buchanan, J. and Deakin, S. (2010) 'Pension fund governance: the evolution of the trust model', working paper, in progress.

Buchanan, J., Chai, D. and Deakin, S. (2010) 'Limits to convergence in corporate governance: the case of hedge fund activism in Japan', working paper, in progress.

Njoya, W. (2010) 'Employee ownership in the European company: reflexive law, reincorporation and escaping codetermination' working paper, in progress; forthcoming, CBR WP series.


Conference/Workshop Papers

Buchanan, J. and Deakin, S. (2009) 'Foreign activism in Japan', presentation to managers in listed Japanese companies in Tokyo, January.

Buchanan, J. Chai, D. and Deakin, S. (2009) 'The causes and consequences of hedge fund activism in Japanese listed companies', presentation to REFGOV CG workshop, 24-25 Cambridge, June 2009.

Konzelmann, S. (2008) 'The Influence of Stock Market Listing on Human Resource Management: Evidence For France and Britain.' (with N. Conway, S. Deakin, H. Petit, A. Reberiouz and F. Wilkinson) Proceedings of the WERS REPONSE Workshop, BERR/DARES, Paris, France, September 2008. [Also in Refgov].

Konzelmann, S. (2008) 'The Conflicting Logic of Markets and the Management of Production.' (with F. Wilkinson). Proceedings of the 6th Annual Capital Matters Conference, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., USA April 16-18, 2008.

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