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We survey law firms, firms and institutional investors to better understand their preferred method of intracorporate dispute resolution in Brazil. Consistent with a number of theories, we find that these organizations prefer arbitration to judicial claims as the method of intra-corporate dispute resolution.
Our findings suggest that their choice of arbitration is based on the parties’ preferred ranking of objectives: quality of the decision; time to resolution; and costs. We find that parties choose to resolve disputes involving up to US$ 2.5 million through mediation or conciliation. We also find that arbitration and mediation or conciliation are almost equally preferred methods for intra-corporate dispute resolution involving values above US$ 2.5 million.
The lack of board diversity is one of the most controversial topics in corporate board governance. We investigate one important influence on diversity...
In this contribution, we focus on the market for stewardship, as this has been developing in the UK. We observe that the 2020 UK Stewardship Code more...