Corporation

Rethinking the Iconic Form of Business Organization

AvRenate E. Meyer,Stephan Leixnering

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

For more than a century, the corporation has shaped our thinking of organizations. This deeply institutionalized form is still regarded as both the iconic business organization and the core structural unit of our economic order. Today, however, it stands at a crossroads. Economic, social, and environmental failures of the recent past as well as misconduct and scandals are widely associated with deficits of the corporate form and its governance.The Corporation engages with current issues of the corporation as an institutionalized organizational form, approaching the concept from the backgrounds of organization theory, law, and economics, combining different theoretical views and empirical approaches. This volume addresses the corporation's entanglement with capitalism, examines a spectrum of constitutive features and purposes of the corporate form, offers historical perspectives on its emergence, and provides reflections on its future development.Encouraging you to rethink the corporation, each contribution also adds to the conceptual development of the corporate form as the iconic business organization.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-01-27
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Emerald Publishing Limited
ISBN:9781800433779

Utforska kategorier

Organisationsteori inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Renate E. Meyer is the Chair of Organization Studies at Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria and Part-time Professor in Institutional Theory at Copenhagen Business School. Current research includes institutional renewal, novel organizational forms, collective action in crises, and governance structures and governance gaps in urban contexts.Stephan Leixnering is a Senior Scientist at Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, Research Institute for Urban Management and Governance. His research focuses on organizational governance in the public and the private sectors, with a focus on how organizations address public interests.Jeroen Veldman is Associate Professor at Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands, and MINES ParisTech and Section Editor Corporate Governance at the Journal of Business Ethics. He leads the Modern Corporation Project.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Rethinking the Corporation: Introduction; Renate E. Meyer, Stephan Leixnering, and Jeroen VeldmanChapter 2. Concentrated Ownership, Socioemotional Wealth, and the 'Third Possibility': Bringing Society Back In; Loizos Heracleous and Luh Luh LanChapter 3. The Elusive Nature of Shareholders' Claims Over the Corporation, or the Strange Non-Death of Shareholder Primacy; Olivier ButzbachChapter 4. Constitutionalizing the Corporation; Anna GrandoriChapter 5. Exploring the Middle Way: The Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI) In Between Corporate Capitalism and Planned Economy (1948–1973); Patrizio Monfardini, Paolo Quattrone, and Pasquale RuggieroChapter 6. The Past as Prologue: Purpose Dynamics in the History of the Aktiengesellschaft; Stephan Leixnering, Renate E. Meyer, and Peter DoraltChapter 7. Community, Enterprise, and Self-Help: The Coevolution of Capitalism and Non-Profit and For-Profit Businesses in Britain and Germany; Heather A. Haveman and Nataliya NedzhvetskayaChapter 8. Shareholder Value or Public Purpose? From John Maynard Keynes and Adolf Berle to the Modern Debate; Suzanne J. Konzelmann, Victoria Chick, and Marc Fovargue-DaviesChapter 9. Social Ontology of the Modern Corporation: Its Role in Understanding Organizations; Jeroen Veldman and Hugh WillmottChapter 10. Rethinking the Purpose of the Corporation With the Creative Power of the Enterprise; Blanche Segrestin, Armand Hatchuel, and Kevin LevillainChapter 11. Learning From Alternatives: Analyzing Alternative Ways of Organizing as Starting Points for Improving the Corporation; Joost Luyckx, Anselm Schneider, and Arno KourulaChapter 12. Concluding Reflections: The Future of the Corporation and Research on the Corporate Form; Gerald F. Davis