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Cover The Responsible Shareholder
The Responsible Shareholder
Stephen Bottomley
Examining the role of shareholders in modern companies, this timely book argues that more should be expected of shareholders, both morally and legally. It explores the privileged position of shareholders within the corporate law system and the unique rights and duties awarded to them in contrast to other corporate actors. Introducing the concept of shareholders as responsible agents whose actions and inactions should be judged on that basis, Stephen Bottomley unites a number of distinct corporate governance discussions including stewardship, activism and shareholder liability.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
09 Nov 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800373402
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Law 2021
Cover Beyond Shareholder Value
Beyond Shareholder Value
A Framework for Stakeholder Governance
P. M. Vasudev
This timely and engaging book examines how maximizing shareholder value has played a dominant role in corporate governance over recent decades, and analyzes the resulting effect on share prices in the stock markets. Alongside the rise in corporate power and deepening economic inequality, the author investigates corporate law reform as a corrective remedy.
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Publication Date:
14 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375772
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Law 2021
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A Research Agenda for Corporations
Christopher May
This exciting Research Agenda offers a multi-disciplinary and historically informed programme for the further investigation of the global political economy of the corporate sector. It tackles the question, can and should the corporation be reformed? Christopher May develops a range of intersecting areas for research while also offering an account of the possibilities for the reform of the global corporation.
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Publication Date:
06 Oct 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977531
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Case Studies of Executive Deviance
Case Studies of Executive Deviance
A Theory of Business Convenience
Petter Gottschalk
This insightful book illustrates thirteen case studies demonstrating the convenience theory of white-collar crime. Offering an integrated deductive perspective through a convenience lens, Petter Gottschalk provides crucial insights into the motives, opportunities and behaviors behind executive deviance.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
11 Sep 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371705
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Business 2020
Cover How Standards Rule the World
How Standards Rule the World
The Construction of a Global Control Regime
Ingrid Gustafsson
This book explains how international standards have come to specify almost all aspects of society, While resting on buzzwords such as ‘trust’ and ‘confidence’, the global control regime leaves us with a faceless bureaucratic system with no name and no one in charge. Using empirical and in depth analysis , the author discusses the consequences for responsibility: if no one is in charge, then no one is to be held accountable for how standards rule the world.
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Publication Date:
15 Jun 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975025
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Business 2020
Cover Reframing Corporate Governance
Reframing Corporate Governance
Company Law Beyond Law and Economics
Javier Reyes
This stimulating book offers an astute analysis of corporate governance from both a historical and a philosophical point of view. Exploring how the modern corporation developed, from Ancient Rome and the Middle Ages up to the present day, Javier Reyes identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the mainstream theory of the firm as put forward by the law and economics school of thought.
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Publication Date:
29 Nov 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785361050
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Law 2018
Cover Corporate Governance, The Firm and Investor Capitalism
Corporate Governance, The Firm and Investor Capitalism
Legal-Political and Economic Views
Alexander Styhre
The shift from managerial capitalism to investor capitalism, dominated by the finance industry and finance capital accumulation, is jointly caused by a variety of institutional, legal, political, and ideological changes, beginning with the 1970s’ downturn of the global economy. This book traces how the incorporation of businesses within the realm of the state leads to both certain benefits, characteristic of competitive capitalism, and to the emergence of new corporate governance problems emerges. Contrasting economic, legal, and managerial views of corporate governance practices in contemporary capitalism, the author examines how corporate governance has been understood and advocated differently during the New Deal era, the post-World War II economic boom, and the after 1980 in the era of free market advocacy.
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Publication Date:
28 Oct 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785364020
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Business 2016
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Rethinking Corporate Governance
The Forming of Operative and Financial Strategies in Global Corporations
Sven-Erik Sjöstrand
Rethinking Corporate Governance’s extensive and insightful empirical investigation offers a radically new approach to corporate governance. This ground-breaking volume describes and analyses the key nature-based and actor-based forces that ultimately determine corporate governance processes and long-term corporate paths. Generally, such forces work in complex and intricate interplays that to a large extent vary among corporations. The author argues that actions taken by individuals have a special status among those forces, as they not only generate impact in themselves, but also involve interpretations of the possible effects of all the other forces. Among those actions, the ones taken by the shareholders stand out as particularly decisive both for the governance processes as such and for how corporations develop over time.
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Publication Date:
27 May 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781951439
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Business 2016
Cover Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Globalization
Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Globalization
Peter Bloom
Exploring the rise of authoritarian capitalism, this book offers a fresh perspective on politics and economics in the present age of globalization. It asks the crucial question of whether individuals and nations can break free from the ‘grip’ of authoritarian capitalism in the twenty-first century. Peter Bloom includes a detailed and in-depth analysis of how marketization is promoting political authoritarianism across the world. He tells a story of authoritarian progress – where capitalist prosperity can only be delivered by the coercive rule of ‘self-disciplining’ nations and ‘disciplining’ trans-national institutions – and in which capitalist sovereignty is replacing liberal and social democracy. In doing so, Bloom helps readers rethink the structural as well as discursive role of sovereign power within capitalism, showing the ways the free market relies upon a range of authoritarian political fantasies not just for its growth but its very survival.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
25 Mar 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784713157
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Business 2016
Cover Corporate Power and Responsible Capitalism?
Corporate Power and Responsible Capitalism?
Towards Social Accountability
Bryn Jones
In this important book, Bryn Jones uses insights from political economy, historical analysis and sociological concepts of the corporation, as a socially disembedded but political actor, to address concerns over the over-reach of Anglo-Saxon corporations. These firms are compared with their continental European and East Asian counterparts, both in their social and economic functions and their institutional structures. Jones then draws on alternative models proposed by advocates of CSR, cooperative enterprise and corporate democratisation, to argue for key reforms for corporations’ greater social accountability.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 May 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784717285
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Business 2015