’Front’ or ’straw men’ directors: a missing element in the effort to prevent the abuse of companies?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karsten Engsig Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Missing Element ◽  
Straw Men

‘Front’ or ‘Straw Men’ Directors: A Missing Element in the Effort to Prevent the Abuse of Companies?

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 749-772
Author(s):  
Karsten Engsig Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Member States ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Missing Element ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Straw Men

Front or straw men directors are often used to conceal who is really managing companies involved in illicit activities of different kinds. Whereas the EU in recent years has made much headway in the effort to curb the abuse of companies, the EU has done little to address this problem. It is pointed out that such front or straw men directors are in fact a problem and that they can – and has been in several Member States – be addressed in different ways. The article analyses these different approaches and points out their pros and cons.

What is to be done with Artificial Straw Men?

1983 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
AndreA Gunder Frank
Keyword(s):  
Straw Men

Paediatric environmental health speciality units in Europe: Integrating a missing element into medical care

2007 ◽  
Vol 210 (5) ◽  
pp. 527-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Antonio Ortega García ◽  
Josep Ferrís i Tortajada ◽  
Juan Alonso López Andreu
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Missing Element

scholarly journals STRAW MEN IN NO MAN'S GARDEN

BioScience ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 250 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRIAN CZECH
Keyword(s):  
Straw Men

What should be the standards for scholarly criticism?

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 577-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARY M. SHIRLEY
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Scholarly Discourse ◽  
Straw Men

Abstract:Should scholars, like columnists, exaggerate and aggregate opposing views into men of straw? I analyse an example of scholarly criticism that characterizes the treatment of development in institutional economics as a simplistic and extremist paradigm. I argue that scholarly standards demand a complete and honest portrayal of contrary opinions and that straw men should be banished from scholarly discourse.

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