Received:
2018-03-15 | Accepted:
2018-06-10 | Published:
2018-06-30
Title
Intra group compliance agreement as a tool to manage the risks in the daughter companies
Abstract
The contribution deals with the topic of relation ship between the mother company and the daughter company, specifically how to control and verify the compliance rules in the daughters company. The contribution shows the possibility to implement the compliance rules in the daughter company through the so-called intragroup agreement as a frame to set up a correct control, reporting, consequence management in the daughter company as required by the standards of its mother. The research is useful for companies, which operate through various related structures, alliances.
Keywords
compliance, effectiveness, criminal responsibility, post-acquisition, SPV, sanctions, vulnerability, mother-company, daughter-company, intra group relations
JEL classifications
M14
, M16
URI
http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/198
DOI
HAL
Pages
1008-1019
Funding
This research has received funding from the Slovak Research and Development Agency Grant Agreement Number APVV-15-0740.
This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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