Regulating Enterprise: Law and Business Organisation in the UK

by David Milman

Overview

This book contains a series of studies of the regulation under English law of the range of business organisational structures available to entrepreneurs. It analyses the commonest of these structures,including limited companies (public and private), groups of companies, privatised enterprises, and partnerships, as well as the more specialised forms such as industrial and provident societies, banks, building societies, insurance companies, joint ventures, franchise agreements, limited partnerships and overseas companies.



Set within the context of a period of considerable actual and proposed legal change, the contributions (from recognised authorities in their respective fields) analyse the broad regulatory structure adopted for each of the above business forms, outline the changing patterns of regulation and consider likely future developments.



Several broad themes run through the work, including the relationship between the economic desirability of facilitating enterprise and the need to regulate against possible abuse; stakeholder protection; pursuit of risk management strategies and the implications of European harmonisation in the business sector.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781901362565
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/19/1999
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

David Milman is the Herbert Smith Professor of Corporate and Commercial Law, University of Manchester.

Editorial Reviews

Highly relevant to the students of the jurisprudence aspects of corporate governance, but serious scholars from other academic orientations will find much of relevance here.” —Corporate Governance Sep 2002

From the Publisher

A collection of 13 essays in which legal scholars reveal the diversity of regulatory structures available for pursuing business enterprise in Britain. Without denying the importance of the well known partnership and limited company, they illustrate that there are other possibilities that are both worthy of academic study and relevant in the practice of general commerce and of more specific spheres of commercial activity. The US distribution is by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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