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'Comparative Corporate Governance': paradigmi definitori e genealogie comparate
Cristina Costantini (Professore Associato di Diritto privato Comparato presso il Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza dell’Università degli studi di Perugia)
- Relazione tenuta il 26 marzo 2018 presso la sede dell’Università degli Studi “Link Campus” di Roma, al Convegno “Corporate Governance and financial markets: pictures from the post-crisis era”. -
Il saggio muove da una ricostruzione definitoria e genealogica dei termini ‘corporation’ e ‘governane’, ponendone in luce le strutturali ambiguità. Per questa via, il primo, ‘corporation’, è presentato quale dispositivo concettuale in grado di minare dall’interno la pretesa unità della Tradizione Giuridica Occidentale; il secondo, ‘governance’, è inteso quale strumento di amministrazione della soglia in cui la corporation è catturata, definendo le mobili relazioni tra pubblico e privato, responsabilità individuale e limitata, proprietà, controllo ed amministrazione. L’endiadi ‘corporate governance’ non può, quindi, che enfatizzare la complessità propria di ciascuno dei due termini costitutivi, risolvendosi operazionalmente in una pluralità di modelli. Queste considerazioni consentono di comprendere più a fondo il rapporto tra corporate governance e crisi dei mercati finanziari, così da prospettare alcune soluzioni interpretative.
The essay is inspired by a definitory and genealogical perspective over the words ‘corporation’ and ‘governance’, in order to clarify their structural ambiguity. The first one, ‘corporation’, is meant as a conceptual device apt to unveil the supposed unity of the Western Legal Tradition; the second one, ‘governance’, is conceived as an important instrument for the concrete administration of the threshold in which corporation is caught, so to measure and define the fluctuant relations between public and private; personal liability and limited liability; property, control and management. The hendiadys ‘corporate governance’ emphasizes the internal complexity specific to each constitutive term and consequently detects a variety of different operational models. These arguments allow us to deeply understand the relationship between financial crisis and corporate governance and are coherently structured so to prospect some interpretative solutions.
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