Introduction / Roger M Barker and Iris H-Y Chiu -- Decentralised business models and the role of the law of organisations and governance / Iris H-Y Chiu -- Three approaches to the governance of decentralised business models contractual, regulatory and technological / Roger Brownsword -- The organisational and governance needs of networks / Roger M. Barker -- Towards sustainable supply chains networks mandatory human rights due diligence as a new governance tool? / Andreas Ru˜hmkorf -- Public private partnerships and the role of the law of organisations and governance / Roger M Barker and Iris H-Y Chiu -- The platform economy and the law of organisations and governance / Iris H-Y Chiu -- Social enterprise law in the platform economy / Nina Boeger -- Blockchain technology-enabled business arrangements / Iris H-Y Chiu and Alexandra Schneiders -- Conclusion : improving the resilience and accountability of decentralized business models / Roger M Barker and Iris H-Y Chiu.
Summary:
"This book draws together themes in business model developments in relation to business networks and platforms, decentralized business models (DBMs), sometimes referred to as the 'sharing' economy', to systematically analyse the challenges to corporate and organizational law, and governance. DBMS include business networks, the global supply chain, public-private partnerships, the platform economy and blockchain-based enterprises. The law of organizational forms and governance has been slow in responding to changes and reliance has been placed on innovations in contract law to support the business model developments. The authors argue that the law of organisations and governance can respond to changes in the phenomenon of decentralised business models driven by transformative technology and new socio-economic dynamics. They argue that principles underlying the law of organisations and governance, such as corporate governance, are crucial to constituting, facilitating and enabling reciprocality, mutuality, governance and redress in relation to these business models, whose creation of wealth neither fully subscribes to a firm or market system, is neither hierarchical or totally decentralized, and incorporates socio-economic elements that are often enmeshed with incentives and relations. Of interest to academics, policy-makers and legal practitioners, this book offers proposals for new thinking in the law of organization and governance to advance the possibilities of a new socio-economic future"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.