Labour Regulation, Corporate Governance and Legal Origin: A Case of Institutional Complementarity?

U. of Cambridge Centre for Business Research Working Paper No. 312

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 72/2006

58 Pages Posted: 26 Apr 2006

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Simon Deakin

University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law

Beth A. Ahlering

PA Consulting Group

Date Written: September 2005

Abstract

We explore the finding of La Porta et al. that differences in "legal origin" account for part of cross-national diversity in labour regulation and corporate governance. We suggest that the finding needs a better historical grounding and that a mechanism which might explain it has not been adequately spelled out. In search of an explanation we focus on the role of complementarities between legal and economic institutions, and in particular the part played by the distinctive "legal cultures" of the common law and civil law in setting national systems on separate pathways to economic development.

Keywords: Legal origin, complementarities, legal cultures, labour law, corporate governance

JEL Classification: G38, K22, K31, J53, J83

Suggested Citation

Deakin, Simon F. and Ahlering, Beth A., Labour Regulation, Corporate Governance and Legal Origin: A Case of Institutional Complementarity? (September 2005). U. of Cambridge Centre for Business Research Working Paper No. 312, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 72/2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=898184 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.898184

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