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So far, it has not been decided whether a limited liability company may delegate a member of the supervisory board to temporarily perform the duties of a member of the management board. Practice is in favour of this possibility, while the doctrine expresses diverse views. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the subject matter in question. The principle of freedom of contract under company law and differences in the regulation of partnerships and capital companies, including the method of appointing the management board, are pointed out. It discusses the consequences of the assessment of delegation in the absence of explicit regulation, as well as the absence of a referral to use Article 383 of the Commercial Companies Code analogically. It demonstrates a number of doubts which are caused by delegation (when the thesis about its admissibility is approved), in particular the status of the delegate (the question of the continued existence of a legal relationship in the supervisory board). The paper employs the dogmatic method. The conclusion is that delegating a member of the supervisory board in a limited liability company de lege lata is not acceptable. However, it is desirable, which is why it should have a regulation modelled on Article 383 § 1 CCC.
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According to the current state of law, a Deputy who is not a member of supervisory boards and programme boards of public broadcasters is not entitled to attend meetings of these bodies, even as an observer. Deputies may, however, in the exercise of their parliamentary mandate, have access to minutes documenting meetings of such bodies. Providing a parliamentarian with such documents is conditional, as it cannot infringe on personal rights of others, as well as on provisions concerning statutorily protected secrets.
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Especially important and actual issue is to take into account the needs of and interests of local commun- ities by municipal companies that are increasingly common form of conduct of public utilities. Because of its public nature, they should strive for the best meeting the needs and expectations of residents to effectively improve the quality of their lives and prosperity in accordance with the concept of sustainable development. The research shows that the supervisory boards of the municipal companies in the utmost account of the interests the executive bodies (the owners) in the action they take decisions on issues of companies. In lesser extent they interested in the implementation of such actions, which will be in accordance with the needs and expectations of local communities
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Good corporate governance depends on well balanced relations between supervisory mechanisms in the corporate governance process. Relations between the supervisory board, as the internal supervisory mechanism, and external auditing, as the external supervisory mechanism, are crucial for the development of good corporate governance practice. This paper focuses on analyzing the relationship between the supervisory board and external auditing in order to determine the current state of that relationship in the Republic of Croatia and to determine possible guidelines for improving the relationship between the supervisory board and external auditing in practice. In addition, this study analyzes the relationship between the supervisory board and external auditing, which could lead to the maximum efficiency of both the supervisory board and external auditing and tests that relationship in practice using publicly traded companies in Croatia. This study also analyzes the impact of the audit committee on the efficiency of the supervisory board and external auditing.
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The paper focuses on resolutions adopted by the management board and the supervisory board of a joint-stock company to increase the share capital of a public limited company within its authorised capital. The author outlines the origin and nature of the authorised capital, the content and form of the abovementioned resolutions, their legal nature and different types of possible defects in them. Challenging defective resolutions is particularly important in practice. That matter is not regulated explicitly in Polish law. The possible solutions available under Italian and Spanish regulations that are presented indicate that the challenging of defective resolutions of the management board and the supervisory board in capital commercial companies, particularly those adopted in connection with authorised capital, should also be regulated in Poland.
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The paper focuses on resolutions adopted by the management board and the supervisory board of a joint-stock company to increase the share capital of a public limited company within its authorised capital. The author outlines the origin and nature of the authorised capital, the content and form of the abovementioned resolutions, their legal nature and different types of possible defects in them. Challenging defective resolutions is particularly important in practice. That matter is not regulated explicitly in Polish law. The possible solutions available under Italian and Spanish regulations that are presented indicate that the challenging of defective resolutions of the management board and the supervisory board in capital commercial companies, particularly those adopted in connection with authorised capital, should also be regulated in Poland.
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The aim of this paper is to present the issue of using a complaint from article 189 of The Code of Civil Procedure to challenge resolutions of a supervisory board of a company. This matter is not regulated precisely in The Code of Commercial Companies. According to the majority of representatives of Polish doctrine the complaint from article 189 of The Code of Civil Procedure is the most proper resource to repeal defective resolutions of a supervisory board in the current legal system. Nevertheless, the above fact does not mean that the declaratory action is deprived of any defects. On the contrary, it has certain weaknesses, which might play an important role in corporate relationships. Therefore, according to The Author, it becomes necessary to provide adequate legal regulations in the issue of challenging resolutions of a supervisory board of a company.
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Managing human capital, directing enterprises or institutions, as well as broadly understood management has always been a task requiring special skills. It is mainly about the knowledge of issues in the area of operation of a given entity, but also of widely developed "soft skills". Essential for the development of these competencies is - experience in executive positions, which the legislator very often requires from people applying for management positions in state units. The essential element of the work is to present the tasks of the members of the supervisory board, whose nature is the same or similar to the tasks of management staff. That is to prove the thesis set out in the title of the article that the function of a supervisory board member is a managerial function. The study contains an analysis of the principal legal acts from the systemic and institutional perspective in Poland. This article is a theoretical work, based mainly on cognitive research, using the historical-legal, dogmatic-legal and comparative methods.
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The paper focuses on resolutions adopted by the management board and the supervisory board of a joint-stock company to increase the share capital of a public limited company within its authorised capital. The author outlines the origin and nature of the authorised capital, the content and form of the abovementioned resolutions, their legal nature and different types of possible defects in them. Challenging defective resolutions is particularly important in practice. That matter is not regulated explicitly in Polish law. The possible solutions available under Italian and Spanish regulations that are presented indicate that the challenging of defective resolutions of the management board and the supervisory board in capital commercial companies, particularly those adopted in connection with authorised capital, should also be regulated in Poland.
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The paper focuses on resolutions adopted by the management board and the supervisory board of a joint-stock company to increase the share capital of a public limited company within its authorised capital. The author outlines the origin and nature of the authorised capital, the content and form of the abovementioned resolutions, their legal nature and different types of possible defects in them. Challenging defective resolutions is particularly important in practice. That matter is not regulated explicitly in Polish law. The possible solutions available under Italian and Spanish regulations that are presented indicate that the challenging of defective resolutions of the management board and the supervisory board in capital commercial companies, particularly those adopted in connection with authorised capital, should also be regulated in Poland.
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Purpose: This study investigates the determinants of audit committee (AC) formation in a semi-mandatory setting of a European economy, in which ownership and control are predominantly in the hands of families and business groups, and the voluntary practice of forming an AC has not been widely accepted. Methodology: This research uses a sample of Polish nonfinancial firms listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) in 2008–2015. The study implemented logistic regression to test the role of the supervisory board (SB) and companies’ compositional characteristics in AC creation. Findings: Primary analysis provided evidence of an inverted association between commonly accepted determinants of AC formation – such as the number of independent members on the supervisory board (SB) – and accounting and finance expertise of the SB members. The study also revealed that companies with foreign ownership are more likely to have an AC. Originality: This study indicates an important relationship between the existence of other SB committees as a meaningful determinant of AC formation. This article is valuable for supervisory bodies and regulators as they provide insights into factors that influence audit committee formation.
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The subject of the gloss is the judgment of the Supreme Court, Chamber of Labour, Social Insurance, and Public Affairs of 5 October, 2017, which dismissed the cassation of a complaint of a plaintiff, a former member of the management board of a joint-stock company, regarding an action to pay severance pay for termination of employment. This dismissal was owing to the fact that the annex to the employment contract was invalid, because it was concluded on the basis of an invalid resolution of the supervisory board of a company. The above decision of the Supreme Court deserves full approval, including, in particular, the ascertainment of invalidity of the resolution of the supervisory board of a company, taken at the settlement of an action regarding an employment relationship based on an annex to the employment contract, entered into on the basis of a resolution of a supervisory board.
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Przedmiotem glosy jest wyrok Sądu Najwyższego, Izby Pracy, Ubezpieczeń Społecznych i Spraw Publicznych z 5.10.2017 r., w którym oddalono skargę kasacyjną powoda - byłego członka zarządu spółki akcyjnej - w przedmiocie powództwa o zasądzenie odprawy z tytułu rozwiązania stosunku pracy na skutek stwierdzenia, że aneks do umowy o pracę był nieważny, gdyż został zawarty na podstawie nieważnej uchwały rady nadzorczej spółki kapitałowej. Powyższe orzeczenie Sądu Najwyższego zasługuje na pełną aprobatę, w tym, w szczególności, stwierdzenie nieważności uchwały rady nadzorczej spółki kapitałowej, podjęte przy rozstrzyganiu powództwa ze stosunku pracy opartego na aneksie do umowy o pracę zawartym na podstawie uchwały rady nadzorczej.
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Celem artykułu jest identyfikacja, w jaki sposób członkowie polskich rad nadzorczych definiują skuteczną radę nadzorczą. Sformułowane definicje są podstawą do odpowiedzi na pytania badawcze: w jakich sferach skuteczność rady powinna się przejawiać oraz jakie czynniki determinują skuteczność jej działania. Empiryczny materiał do analizy otrzymano w ramach przeprowadzonych wywiadów, których udzieliło 34 respondentów zasiadających w radach nadzorczych 27 spółek notowanych na GPW w Warszawie. Otrzymane wyniki wskazują, że skuteczność działania rady powinna się wyrażać w sferze nadzoru oraz w sferze współpracy z zarządem. Do podstawowych zaś czynników warunkujących skuteczność działań rady nadzorczej, zdaniem badanych, należą: skład rady, zapewniający jej zróżnicowanie umiejętności jej członków, ich niezależność i dociekliwość, umiejętność zdobywania przez radę informacji, jak również strukturalizacja pracy rady poprzez tworzenie w niej komitetów. Za ważne determinanty skuteczności rady badani uznali także zainteresowanie członków rady spółką oraz ich zaangażowanie w jej problemy. Analiza poglądów uczestników badań wskazuje również na przypisywanie kluczowego znaczenia akcjonariuszom w procesie budowy skutecznej rady oraz dla jakości jej pracy.
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The aim of the paper is to identify exactly how members of Polish supervisory boards define an effective supervisory board, including their views on which spheres should display such efficacy and what determinants influence a board’s effectiveness. Research materials were collected through interviews with thirty–four respondents, members of the supervisory boards of twenty–seven companies listed on the WSE among the top forty in terms of capitalization in 2011. Research results indicate that the efficacy of supervisory board activity should make its appearance in the spheres of supervision and cooperation with the management board. According to the interviewed board members, the main factor that determines a board’s effectiveness is a make-up ensuring diversity of competencies of its members, their independence and curiosity, and skills at getting information for the board. Moreover, it facilitates the structuring of work by establishing board committees. Board members’ interest in a company and their involvement in its problems were also included in the set of determinants for board effectiveness by the respondents. Analysis of participant opinions and views received through the research also indicates the key importance of shareholders for board efficacy.
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The author discusses the role of corporate governance in preventing economic crises, both in the enterprise and in the economy. The article is based on the research of literature. It presents the concept of corporate governance, crisis, and factors affecting the effectiveness of the supervisory board. In the final part, it presents the principles of effective corporate governance established by the OECD, and the recommendations for redefining of the rules resulting from the analysis of experiences of the last global financial crisis
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Deputies to the European Parliament are excluded from prohibitions related to conducting business activity which apply to Deputies and Senators, i.a., prohibitions established in Article 34 of the Act of 9 May 1996 on Exercising the Mandate of a Deputy or Senator. Hence, there are no impediments for a Deputy to the European Parliament to remain a member of the supervisory board of an entrepreneur such as an association of mutual insurance, e.g. Association of Mutual Insurance TUW.
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Praca obejmuje analizę podstawowych aktów prawnych z zakresu spółek z udziałem jednostek samorządu terytorialnego, skupiając się głównie na tematyce powoływanych w nich rad nadzorczych. Oprócz podstawowych elementów, takich jak liczebność rad, czas trwania ich kadencji, obligatoryjność po-wołania, szczególnie podkreślono obecny w nich czynnik ludzki. Omówiono m. in. podstawowe regulacje dotyczące wymogów, które muszą spełnić kandydaci na członków rad nadzorczych oraz wynagradzania osób już powołanych.Artykuł zwraca uwagę również na kontrowersje powstałe w związku z nowelizacją ustawy o zasadach zarządzania mieniem państwowym, m. in. dotyczące zasady „jedna osoba na jedną radę”.
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The article presents an analysis of basic legal acts in the field of companies with the participation of local authorities, focusing mainly on the subject of supervisory boards established in them. In addition to the basic elements, such as the number of members, the duration of their term, obligatory of appointment, the human factor in them is particularly emphasized. It presents, among others, basic regulations concerning the requirements that candidates for members of supervisory boards have to complete and the remuneration of persons already appointed.The article also presents the controversies arising in connection with the amendment to the Act on the management of state property, including the principle of "one person per one supervisory board".
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The global financial crisis of 2008–2010 undermined confidence in companies operating in the banking sector. Corporate governance systems in banks have been blamed as ineffective and pinpointed as a driving force behind the crisis. In response, international and national regulatory authorities have issued a number of guidelines to improve the effectiveness of supervisory mechanisms. In this article, the author verifies the influence of selected corporate governance standards and characteristics on the effectiveness of banks listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE). The research results confirm a statistically significant effect of mechanisms defined as corporate governance “best practices” and factors related to the size of a bank and its management. In particular, this study shows that there is a negative association between fraction of independent members of supervisory board and the cost effectiveness of WSE-listed banks.
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Wydarzenia globalnego kryzysu finansowego 2008–2010 podważyły zaufanie do podmiotów funkcjonujących w ramach sektora bankowego. Systemy nadzoru korporacyjnego w bankach uznane zostały za nieskuteczne, a niekiedy nawet za sprzyjające generowaniu zjawisk kryzysowych. W reakcji na tak sformułowane zarzuty międzynarodowe i krajowe organy regulacyjne wydały szereg wytycznych mających na celu poprawę skuteczności mechanizmów nadzorczych. W artykule autorka weryfikuje wpływ wybranych standardów i charakterystyk corporate governance na efektywność funkcjonowania banków notowanych na GPW. Zaprezentowane wyniki badań potwierdzają istotność oddziaływania niektórych mechanizmów uznawanych za „dobre praktyki” nadzoru oraz wpływ innych elementów odnoszących się do wielkości banku i osoby prezesa. Oszacowane znaki parametrów strukturalnych modelu dowodzą m.in. ujemnej relacji pomiędzy wielkością frakcji członków niezależnych rady a efektywnością kosztową banków notowanych na GPW.
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This paper aims to describe the characteristics of members of management and supervisory boards in 6,489 joint-stock companies registered in the Polish National Court Register from 2001 to 2017 and to highlight differences between companies depending on their ownership structure: private vs. state-owned. We analysed features such as the term of office, gender, age, and nationality. The average term of a management board is two years and three months. In state-owned enterprises (SOE), this period is several days shorter. Meanwhile, supervisory boards have terms of two years and six months on average. In private companies, the term of office is two months longer than in SOEs. The average board member was 43.5 years old when appointed in private companies and about 45 years old in SOEs. Men predominate in the boardrooms. Comparing management boards, the underrepresentation of women is greater in SOEs. Meanwhile, in the case of private companies, women are more underrepresented on the supervisory boards. We show that the features of board members are statistically significant depending on the ownership structure, but these differences are not large.
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Celem artykułu jest analiza porównawcza zarządów i rad nadzorczych w spółkach akcyjnych w Polsce w latach 2001–2017 w zależności od struktury własności (państwowe vs prywatne). Użyto kryteriów: długość kadencji, płeć, wiek, narodowość członków zarządów i rad. Przedmiotem analizy są spółki akcyjne zarejestrowane w Krajowym Rejestrze Sądowym w latach 2001–2017 (ogółem 6489 spółek). Kadencje w zarządach spółek trwają średnio ok. dwa lata i trzy miesiące. W spółkach państwowych kadencje są krótsze o kilkanaście dni. Kadencje w radach nadzorczych trwają średnio dwa lata i sześć miesięcy i w spółkach prywatnych są dłuższe o ponad dwa miesiące w porównaniu ze spółkami państwowymi. Średni wiek kandydata w momencie powołania do zarządu i rad nadzorczych wynosi około 43,5 roku w przedsiębiorstwach prywatnych i około 45 lat w przedsiębiorstwach państwowych. Kadencje w zarządach i radach nadzorczych są zdominowane przez mężczyzn. W zarządach większą skalą niedoreprezentowania kobiet charakteryzują się spółki państwowe. Z kolei w radach nadzorczych niedoreprezentowanie kobiet jest większe w spółkach prywatnych. Z przeprowadzonych badań wynika, że cechy członków rad nadzorczych i zarządów są statystycznie istotnie różne w zależności od struktury właścicielskiej przedsiębiorstwa, jednak różnice te nie są duże.
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The goal of this article is to answer the question if dualistic system with the introduction of full independency and overbalance of such independent members in a board of trustees leads to the achievement of postulated results, i.e. to the growth of the shareholders value. The understanding of the independency and by which way it is achieved – in Europe as well as in the USA, is to be claryfied at the begining. Empirical and legal comparative methods have been used in that area. Empirical research done in USA and Poland will be introduced and the monistic and dualistic systems shall be compared as following. All this should demonstrate that despite unquestionable advantages of appointing independent members of the boards of trustees, the relation of outlays and effects with the existing absolute duty of appointing independent members of the board of trustees shows negative. Close effects are simply achieved also in countries with systems, where the demand of independency is not that essential. An attempt has been undertaken to find the reasons for the negative results of the empirical research on the independency of the members of the boards of trustees and to characterize possible reasons of the lack of correlation between the company’s performance and the number of independent members in their boards of trustees. The authors hope that the scope of analysis drawn this way will contribute to the discussion, whether the independency of the controlling element in the boards of trustees of joint-stock companies guarantied by ius cogens should belong to the indisputable dogmas of the Polish company law.
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The introduction of the upper echelons theory by Hambrick and Mason in 1984 raised the interest in Top Management Teams (TMT) as key decision makers and in their impact on organizations’ performance. As initial search for the relation between TMT structure and company effectiveness did not bring conclusive results, recently the emphasis has been put on TMT functioning and group processes. Affective conflicts defined as a disagreement between team members caused by personal dislikes are one of them. The main objective of this article is to enrich theoretical considerations with the empirical identification of the relationship between affective conflicts in supervisory boards and their effectiveness. Moreover, various determinants of affective conflicts were examined. Apart from theoretical analysis of the problem, the value of this article is the presentation of the results of own empirical study conducted among members of supervisory boards representing 46 public companies operating in Poland. The results showed that affective conflicts decrease board performance, but the relation is not statistically significant. It was also observed that the strongest determinats of affective conflicts are work organization, education level of board memebers, and team cohesiveness. Conclusions are useful for the organization and moderation of board meetings and the selection of candidates.
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Wprowadzenie „teorii wyższych szczebli” (ang. the upper echelons theory) przez Hambricka i Masona w 1984 roku wzbudziło zainteresowanie zespołami naczelnego kierownictwa jako kluczowymi decydentami w przedsiębiorstwie i ich wpływem na wyniki organizacji. Początkowe poszukiwanie relacji między strukturą tych zespołów a efektywnością spółek nie przyniosło jednoznacznych rezultatów, dlatego coraz więcej uwagi poświęca się funkcjonowaniu rad dyrektorów, zarządów i rad nadzorczych oraz procesom grupowym w tych zespołach. Jednym z takich procesów są konflikty afektywne rozumiane jako brak zgodności między członkami zespołu spowodowane osobistymi antypatiami. Głównym celem tego artykułu jest wzbogacenie rozważań teoretycznych o empiryczną identyfikację związku między konfliktami afektywnymi w radach nadzorczych a skutecznością rad. Ponadto zbadano różne determinanty konfliktów afektywnych. Oprócz teoretycznej analizy problemu wartością tego artykułu jest prezentacja wyników własnych badań empirycznych przeprowadzonych wśród członków rad nadzorczych reprezentujących 46 spółek publicznych działających w Polsce. Wykazano, że konflikty afektywne obniżają efektywność rady nadzorczej, ale relacja ta nie jest istotna statystycznie. Zaobserwowano również, że najsilniejszymi determinantami konfliktów afektywnych są organizacja pracy, poziom wykształcenia członków rady oraz spójność zespołu. Wnioski wynikające z badań mogą być wykorzystane przy organizacji i moderacji posiedzeń rad nadzorczych oraz przy doborze kandydatów do rady.
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The article presents an overview deliberations concerning the issue of organizational-legal aspects associated with processes of appointing supervisory boards members in companies with State Treasury Shareholding. The author paid special attention on such problems as: formal requirement for acting as representative of the Treasury in supervisory boards and the criteria of selecting supervisory board members to assure proper functioning of corporate supervision. A crucial element of conducted analyses was a comprehensive review of important document – the Ordinance No. 45 of the Minister of Treasury of 6 December 2007 on the principles for selecting candidates for the composition of supervisory boards of commercial companies with State Treasury shareholding. In the article was clearly underlined a very important fact, that the selection of candidates for representatives of the Treasury conducted through public qualification procedure, in accordance with the analyzing Ordinance No. 45 is applicable only in narrow group of enterprises, where the Treasury is represented by the Minister of Treasury. In case of other companies, being in supervisory owner’s of other ministers, these procedures are not in force. Another occurring controversial problem with the regulations resulting from Ordinance is the letter of Human Rights Defender, being a constitutional complaint about this document. In the next part author focuses on the new recommendations introduced in “Principles of Corporate Supervision over Companies with State Treasury Shareholding”. This document is an expression of expectations of state authority, legally responsible for protecting the interests of the Treasury, that is why could not be regarded as a normative act of government administration, but only as a standard-forming document. The study contains also own thoughts and author’s views, personal reflections and critical conclusions related to discussing and analyzing issues bases on observation the real processes of the management practices and conducted research.
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