The Corporation as Technology

Re-Calibrating Corporate Governance for a Sustainable Future

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Recent decades have witnessed environmental, social, and economic upheaval, with major corporations contributing to a host of interconnected crises. The Corporation as Technology examines the dynamics of the corporate form and corporate law that incentivize harmful excesses and presents an alternative vision to render corporate activities more sustainable. The corporate form is commonly described as a set of fixed characteristics that strongly prioritize shareholders' interests. This book subverts this widely held belief, suggesting that such rigid depictions reinforce harmful corporate pathologies, including excessive risk-taking and lack of regard for environmental and social impacts. Instead, corporations are presented as a dynamic legal technology that policymakers can re-calibrate over time in response to changing landscapes. This book explores the theoretical and practical ramifications of this alternative vision, focusing on how the corporate form can help secure an environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable future.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-07-14
Mått:249 x 165 x 25 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:254
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197635179

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Christopher M. Bruner is the Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. His scholarship focuses on corporate law, corporate governance, comparative law, and sustainability, and he has written several books on these topics. He received his A.B., M.Phil., and J.D. from the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and Harvard Law School, respectively.

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Read this book before you despair of the possibility that modern corporations can be usefully enlisted in the effort to address urgent global social and environmental problems! Professor Bruner has reimagined corporations as a set of governance levers that modulate accountability, power, purpose, and risk-taking by business people who organize themselves into publicly-traded corporations. He takes us on a sweeping tour of the use of the corporate form, over time, countries, and industries to make the case that the levers can be adjusted and recalibrated to make this old and venerated institution better address contemporary problems.

Innehållsförteckning

PART ONE: THE DYNAMISM OF THE CORPORATION Chapter 1. Introduction and OverviewChapter 2. Defining the Corporation and Corporate LawChapter 3. Contextual Drivers of Difference PART TWO: RE-CONCEPTUALIZING THE CORPORATION Chapter 4. Enduring Controversies in Corporate LawChapter 5. The Corporation as Technology PART THREE: HARNESSING THE CORPORATION Chapter 6. Corporate Pathologies and Corporate SustainabilityChapter 7. Re-Calibrating Governance: Industry-by-Industry ApproachesChapter 8. Re-Imagining Corporate Accountability Chapter 9. Conclusions