Corporate Jurisdiction Research Articles

Dormant Commerce and Corporate Jurisdiction

Dormant Commerce and Corporate Jurisdiction

Corporate Jurisdiction, Academic Heresy, and Fraternal Correction at the University of Paris, 1200–1400 by Gregory S. Moule

Corporate Jurisdiction, Academic Heresy, and Fraternal Correction at the University of Paris, 1200–1400 by Gregory S. Moule

Corporate Jurisdiction, Academic Heresy, and Fraternal Correction at the University of Paris, 1200–1400. Gregory S. Moule. Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 51. Leiden: Brill, 2016. xvi + 374 pp. $181.

Corporate Jurisdiction, Academic Heresy, and Fraternal Correction at the University of Paris, 1200–1400. Gregory S. Moule. Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 51. Leiden: Brill, 2016. xvi + 374 pp. $181.

Demographic and Commercial Environments and Building Control Customer Services

A simple and cost effective business analytics schema developed in this study provides a basis for observing how demographic and commercial environmental impacts affect building control customer services. In order to overlay environmental impacts onto building control services, schematic mapping of resource distributions and services were plotted according to corporate jurisdiction, corporate virtues and customer type characteristics. Quantitative and qualitative surveys were conducted on corporate staff and material resources, business performance measures and targets, building control service manager observations and demographic and commercial environments. Results from this research provide a single view corporate map of people, material resources, and service performance in relation to customer characteristics, while reaching out to better understand the building control customer experience, general public expectation and market influences. In this regard, this research can provide a foundation for realising corporate virtue aspirations.

Corporate Citizenship and Social Spaces in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Missing Link of Ethnicity

This paper assesses the corporate citizenship (CC) discourse against critical political geography to deconstruct the representations of space in the corporate rhetoric on community development in postcolonial African societies. It is argued that the spaces of representation of the protagonists concerned with the development projects are rather predicated on the missing link of ethnicity which the mainstream CC discourse neglects. The findings confirm that the plant- community conflictive relation in a Ghanaian mine, owned by a North American company, stems from the disconnect between the corporate representation of space in the so-called Community Development Effort and the representations of the space by local actors from the local community under ancestral jurisdiction, the plant under corporate jurisdiction, and the district assembly under decentralized government jurisdiction. The paper concludes that ethnicity remains the structuring principle of spaces of citizenship in this typical African working ...

Taking Salience Seriously: The Viability of Ronald Dworkin's Theory of Salience in the Context of Extra-Territorial Corporate Accountability

In his posthumously published article “A New Philosophy for International Law”, Ronald Dworkin argues for the adoption of “salience” as basis for establishing international legal standards. Writing in the context of international law, Dworkin describes salience as follows: “If a significant number of states, encompassing a significant population, has developed an agreed code of practice, either by treaty or by other form of coordination, then other states have at least a prima facie duty to subscribe to that practice as well, with the important proviso that this duty holds only if a more general practice to that effect, expanded in that way, would improve the legitimacy of the subscribing state and the international order as a whole.” Dworkin argues that the limitations of the accepted grounds for establishing international law often fall short especially when addressing problems that necessitate forced collective action such as climate change. Although he makes no reference to multi-national corporations, many of the challenges brought out by Dworkin apply to multi-national corporations. The challenges are particularly daunting in the context of multinationals operating in the developing world where corporate governance structures provide nations in the developing world with limited voice and power. Dworkin’s doctrine of salience is well-suited for application in the context of transnational corporations. Dworkin’s salience seems to reflect what can take place and what is taking place in the development of this area of the law. In addition, salience presents a means for enabling the mutual development of coherent and referential international standards concerning the judicial management of extra-territorial corporate accountability. The need that salience can address is well demonstrated in the recent United States Supreme Court case of Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. This paper shows how Dworkin’s theory of salience offers a useful theoretical construct for developing a global approach to extra-territorial corporate jurisdiction and liability that can secure benefits and justice for nations in developing world.

The New Corporate Health Ethic: Lifestyle and the Social Control of Work

A corporate health ethic, forged in U.S. industry in the 20th century, clearly demarcated boundaries between private and workplace health concerns. This article advances evidence that the boundary is blurring, and argues that trends in workplace initiatives, including employee assistance, wellness programs, and drug screening, are giving shape to a new corporate health ethic. The new ethic emphasizes workers' lifestyles on and off the job, engendering a shift in corporate jurisdiction over employee health and behavior. Economic arguments such as "health care cost containment" are commonly offered as explanations for these new health initiatives. But the authors see the new ethic as a deeper response to a changing corporate environment and, more fundamentally, as emblematic of changes in the social control of work and productivity. They argue that the new health ethic may be a harbinger of new forms of social control in the workplace.