The role of enterprise principles in shaping management duties at times of crisis

The enterprise group form presents special risks of mismanagement when entities in the group are in financial trouble. At the same time, pursing a group interest might assist in resolving the financial difficulties. In any event, delineating rules for this situation is challenging, given the variety...

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Main Author: Mevorach, Irit
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Published: Cambridge University Press 2013
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29758/
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description The enterprise group form presents special risks of mismanagement when entities in the group are in financial trouble. At the same time, pursing a group interest might assist in resolving the financial difficulties. In any event, delineating rules for this situation is challenging, given the variety of group structures and potential erosion of the benefit of limited liability when the regulation targets the whole group. The conflict is between “entity law” (which addresses each group entity separately) and “enterprise principles” (which address the group as a whole). There is scope for crafting the “wrongful trading” provision, now being adopted as an international standard, to accommodate the group scenario. In this context, enterprise principles should function only to help ascertain the commercial reality, rather than to override entity law.
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spelling nottingham-297582020-05-04T20:18:28Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29758/ The role of enterprise principles in shaping management duties at times of crisis Mevorach, Irit The enterprise group form presents special risks of mismanagement when entities in the group are in financial trouble. At the same time, pursing a group interest might assist in resolving the financial difficulties. In any event, delineating rules for this situation is challenging, given the variety of group structures and potential erosion of the benefit of limited liability when the regulation targets the whole group. The conflict is between “entity law” (which addresses each group entity separately) and “enterprise principles” (which address the group as a whole). There is scope for crafting the “wrongful trading” provision, now being adopted as an international standard, to accommodate the group scenario. In this context, enterprise principles should function only to help ascertain the commercial reality, rather than to override entity law. Cambridge University Press 2013-12 Article PeerReviewed Mevorach, Irit (2013) The role of enterprise principles in shaping management duties at times of crisis. European Business Organization Law Review, 14 (4). pp. 471-496. ISSN 1566-7529 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9149904&fileId=S1566752912001279 doi:10.1017/s1566752912001279 doi:10.1017/s1566752912001279
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The role of enterprise principles in shaping management duties at times of crisis
title The role of enterprise principles in shaping management duties at times of crisis
title_full The role of enterprise principles in shaping management duties at times of crisis
title_fullStr The role of enterprise principles in shaping management duties at times of crisis
title_full_unstemmed The role of enterprise principles in shaping management duties at times of crisis
title_short The role of enterprise principles in shaping management duties at times of crisis
title_sort role of enterprise principles in shaping management duties at times of crisis
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