Nordic Company Law: Broadening the Horizon

Edited by Beate Sjåfjell and Jukka Mähönen.
Published by Scandinavian University Press, 2023.

Nordic company law is deeply integrated in European company law. Yet Nordic company law retains its own essence. This volume discusses core Nordic company law issues of control, purpose and profit in companies ranging from micro enterprises to listed companies.

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The theme of the volume

This volume speaks to all interested in the topical company law and corporate governance debates. These include: What will digitalisation mean for corporate governance? What role for company law in the transformation to sustainability? Does state control of multinational listed enterprises entail good corporate governance?

The volume goes beyond the traditional scope of Nordic company law by also encompassing enterprise foundations, cooperatives, and conceptualising, for the first time, Sámi company law.

The authors are leading Nordic scholars in their fields. Covering all five Nordic countries and the Sápmi, they bring to the reader the state-of-the-art concerning challenges and possibilities for Nordic company law. With its in-depth analysis of pan-Nordic and jurisdiction-specific themes, the volume is an indispensable resource for academics, students, practitioners, policymakers and journalists interested in Nordic company law and its contributions to the European and international debates of our time. 

Praise for the volume

Professor Stefan Grundmann has written the foreword and highlights the significant contribution of the volume in bringing a ‘condensed and precise image’ of Nordic company law to the European debate:

‘In the European concert, Nordic company law is more powerful than Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic or Sámi company law alone. It constitutes a whole group of voices combined, thus stronger, like the whole group of string instruments or of wind instruments, with distinct voice and sound. What is its melody – and I wonder, whether melodies unheard are really sweeter, as an outstanding comparatist has once famously put it?

Indeed, to bring to us this world in one condensed and precise image – this is the scope of this volume. Nuanced and detailed, but also clear and crisp, with the main context. Therefore, history is so important – where do we come from, and how did what we now see come about? Therefore, the deeper insight into governance, the real modes of influence is so important […]. (B)oth the general themes and the deeper look into single jurisdictions, the nuances, are so important. At the end: the future cannot be forecasted, but it is no option either not to have it at least in mind. This is a deep and colourful work – in the best sense.’

Overview of the chapters of the volume

The introductory chapter as well as abstracts of all chapters are freely available on SSRN.

ISBN: 9788215054094

Full text of the volume is available at selected University libraries through Juridika. More information about the volume, both hardback and digital, is available on the website of Scandinavian University Press.

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