What Corporate Veil?

Piercing the Corporate Veil: An Empirical Study

What Is Corporate Accountability?

Since the 1990s, the world has witnessed the growing importance and visibility of a range of initiatives led by businesses, social organisations and governments, with the stated aim of pressuring companies to behave in more socially responsible and accountable ways. This is a new development for many parts of the business world. Previously, the state (or government) was assumed to lead standard...

directors’ liability under thr doctrine of piercing the corporate veil : the directors' liability for corporate debt

the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil fascilitated holding directors liable for corporate debt. nevertheless, the doctrine is not a seperate cause of action. directors are bound by fiduciary duty, duty of loyalty and duty of care and skill to the corporation and its shareholders. however, there is not such a contractual relationship between directors and creditors. thus, requiring directo...

Dialectics of the Veil

W.E.B. Du Bois's concept of "the veil," first fully articulated in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), contains the most nuanced and powerful theory of race and racism ever developed. Du Bois understands the veil dialectically. This philosophical term "dialectic" refers to a relationship that simultaneously embodies both antagonism and interdependence, that develops over historical time, and that l...

Lifting the veil.

J.J. Reilly documented in 2001 that a significant number of complex infrastructure projects substantially exceeded their budgets. He presented his findings at the March 2001 American Underground Construction Conference. Fryvbjerg published his results in “Underestimating Costs in Public Works, Error or Lie?” in the summer 2002 American Planning Association Journal. Flyvbjerg reported on the cos...