Multinational enterprises and tort liabilities: an interdisciplinary and comparative examination
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Autor: Eroglu, Muzaffer
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Contents
List of figures xi
Preface xii
List of abbreviations xiv
Table of cases xv
Table of statutes, other statutory and international instruments xix
Introduction 1
PART I CONCEPT OF MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE
1 Social and economic analysis of multinational enterprises 23
Introduction 23
History of foreign direct investment and emergence of MNEs 24
Developments between 1918 and 1960 27
Developments between 1960 and 1990 29
Contemporary developments: globalization of the world trade 30
Theories of multinational investment 35
Conclusion: MNEs as globalized profit seeking organizations 38
2 Multinational enterprises as business organizations 42
Introduction 42
The historical developments of MNEs organizational structures 45
Horizontally - less hierarchically - structured multinational
enterprises 50
Regionally organized multinational enterprises 60
Managing on global concern: common group policy 62
Networked enterprises: relationships between the firms under
different ownership 64
Conclusion: MNEs as horizontal organizations 68
3 The legal structure of multinational enterprises 70
Introduction 70
Emergence of groups of companies 73
Limited liability: definition of the concept and historical
evolution 75
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Reasons for limited liability 80
Economic analysis of limited liability 81
Evaluation of risks and problems in limited liability corporate
groups 85
Conclusion: limited liability multinational enterprises 89
Conclusion of Part I: MNEs: limited liability, horizontally
organized, profit seeking, global institutions 91
PART II EXPLORING THE TORT LIABILITY OF MULTINATIONAL
ENTERPRISES
4 Jurisdictional problems 97
Introduction 97
Jurisdictional rules for companies and MNEs 99
Domicile 100
Forum non conveniens 103
Assessment criteria of forum non conveniens doctrine 110
Private interest factors 110
Evidences and witnesses 111
Enforcement 112
Efficiency of the alternative forum 113
Public interest factors 115
Criticism of forum non conveniens doctrine 117
Suggested solutions to forum non conveniens 120
Conditional forum non conveniens 120
Judiciary and Judicial Procedure Act in the USA (28 USC
§ 1404(A)) 121
Australian approach to forum non conveniens 122
Brussels and Lugano conventions 123
The Alien Tort Claims Act 124
Choice of law problems in MNEs tort litigation 131
Conclusion: overcoming the jurisdictional problems 132
5 Tort liability of multinational enterprises in case law 135
Introduction 135
Vicarious liability in groups of companies 140
Piercing the corporate veil 144
Fraud doctrine 148
Common law agency doctrine 151
Single economic unit doctrine 153
Conclusion: Abandoning the Veil Piercing 156
Contents ix
6 Comparative laws and principles regarding corporate group liability 159
Introduction 159
Laws related to corporate groups liability in England 161
Development in English company law 163
Company law review steering group, modern company law for
a competitive economy 164
Company Law Reform Bill, the 2005 White Paper and the
Companies Act 2006 167
Developments in European Community law 168
Action plan on modernizing company law in the EU 170
The Forum Europeaum: corporate group law of Europe 174
European competition law litigation: group as single economic
unit 179
European Union: adding more complexity to the problem of
liability 182
German Stock Corporations Act 1965 184
Groups of companies in arbitration 192
The Comprehensive Environmental Responsibility and
Compensation Act (CERCLA) 199
Developments in Turkish Law 204
Conclusion: the demise of the control theory 212
7 Liability options beyond the group liability discussion 217
Introduction 217
Options within commercial and company law 217
Corporate social responsibility 222
Conclusion: coupling corporate social responsibility with
efficient tort liability regimes 232
PARTIE A WAY FORWARD
8 Future of MNEs tort liability 239
Introduction 239
Exploring the reasons for mistakes 241
Building laws to make multinational enterprises liable for their
torts 247
Jurisdictional concerns 248
Laws for MNEs or creditors: economic concern versus justice 250
With or without limited liability 251
Case law or statutory law 253
Single or plural regulation 254
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Company law, corporate groups law or multinational
enterprises law 254
General or detailed regulation 255
Static or dynamic regulation 256
How to personalize MNEs 257
Parent, subsidiary or group liability 259
Liability based on ownership or business organization or
control 261
Final conclusions 265
Bibliography 267
Index 309
Figures
2.1 Simple hierarchical structure 46
2.2 M-form (vertical structure) 48
2.3 The process towards less-hierarchical structure 50
2.4 The horizontal organization 55
2.5 Organizational structure of N.V. Philips 57
2.6 Corporate governance structure of Shell in 2007 58
2.7 The structure of Bayer 59
2.8 The regionally and functionally divided horizontal organization 61
2.9 The networked enterprise 66
8.1 Liability based on organizational structure 264
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