Enterprise Foundation Law in a Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 7. March 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-83970-306-5 (ISBN)
Description
Many large companies - like Bosch, Ikea and Novo-Nordisk - are owned by enterprise foundations. This book provides an overview of enterprise foundation law in six European countries and the US. The book explores enterprise foundation law in the seven aforementioned nations and analyzes how the law influences the prevalence and governance of enterprise foundations around the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83970-306-5 (9781839703065)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Book
approx. 12/2025
2nd Edition
Intersentia Ltd
€155.50
Not yet published
Person
Steen Thomsen, professor, Ph.D., is Novo Nordisk Foundation Professor of Enterprise Foundation Governance at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). He specializes in enterprise foundations and corporate governance as a teacher, researcher, consultant, commentator and practitioner. Prof. Dr. Anne Sanders, M.Jur (Oxon) holds the chair for Civil law, Company law, the law of Family Businesses and Judicial Studies at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. She is co-director of the Institute for Family Businesses at the University of Bielefeld (IFUn) and Professor II of the faculty of law of the University of Bergen, Norway (2021-2023). She focusses her research on purpose driven organisations such as foundations, companies and steward owned businesses which are included in the coalition agreement in 2021 of the German government.