Corporate governance and labour law: Situating Australia's `regulatory style'

Abstract

This article gives an overview of the `varieties of capitalism' and `legal origins' literature to develop a stylised model of various complementarities between corporate governance and the management of labour, with an emphasis on the role of corporate law and labour law. The authors then apply this model to interrogate the development of Australian labour law and corporate law, and consider whether a case can be made for an Australian exceptionalism.