TY - BOOK AU - Birkmose,Hanne Sndergaard AU - Neville,Mette AU - Srensen,Karsten Engsig TI - Boards of directors in European companies: reshaping and harmonising their organisation and duties T2 - European company law series SN - 9789041141415 PY - 2013///] CY - Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands PB - Kluwer Law International KW - Directors of corporations KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - European Union countries KW - Corporate governance N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-399); Introduction; Hanne S. Birkmose, Mette Neville, Karsten Engsig Srensen --; Mapping directors' duties : strategies and trends in the EU; Carsten Gerner-Beuerle & Edmund-Philipp Schuster --; Directors' conflicts of interest : a contribution to European governance; Paul Kruger Andersen & Dorthe Kristensen Balshj --; Directors' duties in groups of companies : legalising the interest of the group at the European level; Pierre Henri Conac --; Directors' duties to engage shareholders; Hanne S. Birkmose --; The risk management duties of the board of directors; Christoph Van der Elst --; Directors' duties and corporate responsibility (CSR); Beate Sjafjell & Linn Anker-Srensen --; The many roles of boards of SMEs; Mette Neville --; Independent directors : after the crisis; Wolf-Georg Ringe --; Active owners and accountable directors; Jesper Lau Hansen --; Nomination of members for the board of directors : a Swedish version of Wag the dog?; Jan Andersson --; The Europe wide movement towards a gender quota at board level; Christoph Teichmann & Carolin Langes --; Understanding the role of the board of directors : what is the right balance between managerial oversight and value creation?; Joseph A. McCahery, Erik P.M. Vermeulen & Masato Hisatake --; Disqualifying directors in the EU; Karsten Engsig Srensen --; An overview of the executive renumeration issue across the crisis; Guido Ferrarini & Maria Cristina Ungureanu UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy14pdf03/2013362272.html ER -