Former corporate managers, fiduciary obligations, and the public policy in favor of competition
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In common law sytstems corporate managers owe fiduciary obligations to their corporations. This has complicated the legal analysis of competitive business activities by former corporate managers, particularly since the 1974 Supreme Court of Canada decision in Canaero . Other former corporate employees have long been allowed to compete with their ex-employers, so long as they do not use their ex-employers' property or breach terms of any contracts restraining their business activities. Attempts to contract to restrain future competitive business activities have long been restricted by the public policy in favor of competition. Former corporate managers can also be sued in Equity : the remedy is for an accounting of profits or for equitable damages. The judicial analysis of these equitable actions has been mystified by the "corporate opportunity doctrine" and the mistaken notion that a fiduciary obligation can survive resignation from the fiduciary position that created the obligation. A review of the basics exposes the errors and shows that equitable accounting and equitable damages remedies are also subject to the public policy in favor of competition, but that the calculation is more complicated than in contracts.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".