Empirical Research

The TCRG is committed to engaging in empirical research to obtain valuable data on a number of important questions to do with an aspect(s) of corporate law and governance. TCRG will regularly coordinate research teams, principally comprised of TCRG members plus other prominent and specialist individuals and organisations, to be involved in discrete projects involving the collection, collation, application and publication of research on particular topics- principally in relation to unresolved and contentious corporate governance issues.

TCRG research teams will be encouraged to apply for competitive research grants, and to structure their projects with a view to publishing their findings in the form of a research monograph.

Current Empirical Research Projects Being Undertaken by TCRG members include:

• A comparative study of the desirability, from the perspective of shareholder rights, of using schemes of arrangements rather than formal takeover bids to achieve a change of corporate control. This study is at its preliminary stage at the moment, and more details will be posted as the project progresses. The project is being managed by academics at Deakin University Law School in Melbourne, Australia.