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Fighting Short-Termism in EU Company Law after the Financial Crisis

The authors challenge the belief that the shareholder model dominates EU company law, to the detriment of corporate sustainability. The article argues that the last financial crisis has significantly moved EU regulation towards integrating stakeholder model into EU company law. The article seeks to identify means that the EU has employed to fight shareholder primacy norm. The article considers safeguards underpinning the corporate financial sustainability, alongside those aspects of corporate social responsibility which focus on the interaction between a financially sustainable company and sustainable society.

Shareholder model, stakeholder model, share capital, accounting standards, corporate social responsibility

Rad je nastao kao rezultat istraživanja u sklopu projekta Corporate Sustainability and Share Capital, pod okriljem Posebne znanstvene skupine Poslovno i financijsko pravo, Europski pravni institut.