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The aim of this paper is to discuss and analyse whether recommendations on corporate governance have led to more transparency and well‐defined corporate identities for listed small and medium‐sized companies through their external communication on corporate governance. The paper focuses on the task and responsibility of the board and discusses the effect of external communication on management, transparency and corporate identity. The paper also analyses results from two empirical studies on communication on corporate governance from 60 Danish listed companies. It can be concluded that communication through corporate governance has led to more transparency in how companies are managed. There is room for improvement, however, before external communication leads to well‐defined company identities.

This e-book marks the 10 year anniversary of a special issue on corporate identity, and the origins of some of its papers can be traced back to the 11th International Corporate Identity Group's (ICIG) Symposium which was held in Brighton, England in March 2008

Full-text available at SSRN. See link in this record. ; Theoretical debates about the nature of the corporation have raged for over a century, with competing visions of the corporation holding sway in different regulatory arenas and each making claims for normative supremacy. Yet courts and commentators alike have persistently failed to consider the application of these concepts to corporate groups. Beginning from theories of the firm, this Article extends the standard understandings of corporate personhood to develop alternative theories of corporate group identity. It then illustrates the utility of these approaches in different areas of law and policy through the lens of the Supreme Court's rulings in Citizens United, decided in January 2010, and Janus Capital Group Inc. v. First Derivative Traders, decided in June 2011, as well as leading appellate cases decided in the past year that examine the issue under international law. Acknowledging the complexity of corporations as organizations and the need for contextualized analysis, this Article then proposes a framework for identifying which theoretical perspective offers the best foundation in different areas of the law where alternative visions of the corporate group may lead courts and legislators to different legal rules and case outcomes.