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- Title
The business judgement rule - approach and application.
- Authors
PONTA, Adina
- Abstract
The business judgment rule represents a central doctrine of corporate governance, due to its major implications on corporate directors' liability and to its influence on the relationship between shareholders and the board of directors. The interpretation of the Rule as a behavioral standard or as an ?abstention doctrine? can determinatively influence the liability proceedings against directors who acted in consideration of their fiduciary duties. This paper aims at analyzing the national legal provisions of the Business Judgement Rule and the compatibility of the legal provisions with the established interpretations of the Rule that can be found in the foreign literature. Absent a case law that clarifies de approaches of the Business Judgement Rule by the national courts, the research analyzes the traditional Common Law approaches of the Rule and the obstacles which hinder a faithful transfer of the Rule in Romania. The objective of these identifications is to draw de lege ferenda proposals for an efficient application of the legal provisions in the future. Considering that this Rule is the natural consequence of trust and of the powers granted to corporate directors, the conclusions of the research suggest solutions for the stabilization of the continuous tension of the supreme values of the corporate world: authority and liability.
- Subjects
BUSINESS judgment rule; ABSTENTION doctrine (Law); CORPORATE governance; LEGAL liability; REASONABLE care (Law)
- Publication
Juridical Tribune / Tribuna Juridica, 2015, Vol 5, Issue 2, p25
- ISSN
2247-7195
- Publication type
Article