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Shaping the Corporate Landscape : Towards Corporate Reform and Enterprise Diversity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boeger, Nina
Otros Autores: Villiers, Charlotte
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Authors -- Introduction -- I. Contextual Challenges -- II. Accountability -- III. A Variety of Different Business Forms -- IV. Alternative Business Goals -- V. A New Cooperative Solidarity -- VI. Continued Contextual Challenges -- Part I Corporate Reform -- 1 Corporate Schizophrenia: The Institutional Origins of Corporate Social Irresponsibility -- I. Introduction -- II. The Railtrack Cases -- III. Corporate Schizophrenia -- IV. Company Law and the Joint Stock Company -- V. Accommodating the Rentier -- VI. The Janus-faced Shareholder: Owner or Creditor? -- VII. The Corporate Revolution: Towards Socialisation or Financialisation? -- VIII. Organised Money: Exploiting Shareholder Residual Proprietary Rights -- IX. Defending Shareholder Residual Proprietary Rights -- X. Realising the Potential of the Corporation -- References -- 2 Destruction by Ideological Pretence: The Case of Shareholder Primacy -- I. Introduction -- II. The Corporate Landscape and Organised Money -- III. Business Purpose, Evolution and Financialisation -- IV. The Shareholder Primacy Belief System -- V. Shareholder Primacy's False Theoretical Base -- VI. Shareholder Primacy's Ambiguous Legality -- VII. Conclusion -- References -- 3 The Separate Legal Entity and the Architecture of the Modern Corporation -- I. Introduction -- II. Creating the Modern Public Limited Liability Corporation -- III. The Separate Legal Entity -- IV. Corporate Organs and Fiduciary Duties -- V. The SLE and Directors' Duties -- VI. Social Licence -- VII. Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- 4 Dismantling the Legal Myth of Shareholder Primacy: The Corporation as a Sustainable Market Actor -- I. The Call for Corporate Sustainability -- II. The Unsustainability of the Corporation -- III. The Necessary Reform of the Corporation. 
505 8 |a IV. Conclusion and Outlook: A Broader and Systemic Analysis is Required -- References -- 5 Climate Change, Business Transformation -- I. Climate Change Uncertainties -- II. Business and Climate Change -- III. Assessing the Current Situation -- IV. Conclusions -- References -- 6 Capitalism: Why Companies are Unfit for Social Purpose and How they Might be Reformed -- I. Introduction -- II. Neoliberalism, Labour and Corporations: Where the Story Begins -- III. Shaping the Corporate Environment -- IV. How Can We Make Companies (More) Fit for Social Purpose? -- V. Conclusion -- References -- 7 Section 172 of the Companies Act 2006: Desperate Times Call for Soft Law Measures -- I. Introduction -- II. The Evolution of the Duty to Act in the Interests of the Company -- III. Proposals for Reform: Challenges and Justification -- IV. Conclusion -- References -- 8 Corporate Governance, Responsibility and Compassion: Why we should Care -- I. Introduction -- II. Structural Obstacles to Effective Corporate Governance and Responsibility -- III. Feminist theory and Positive Organisation Studies: Care and Compassion -- IV. Structural Features Arising from Care and Compassion: How these Might Lead to More Positive Behaviour -- V. Implications for Company Law and Corporate Governance -- VI. Challenges and Potential Pitfalls -- VII. Conclusion -- References -- 9 Beyond Shareholder Primacy-The Case for Workers' Voice in Corporate Governance -- I. Directors' Duties and the Voice of Shareholders in Corporate Governance -- II. The Case for Workers' Voice in Corporate Governance -- III. Conclusion -- References -- 10 The New Corporate Movement -- I. Introduction -- II. Polanyi's Counter-movement and Corporate Power -- III. Rise of Social, Cooperative and Commons-oriented Enterprise -- IV. Social Enterprise -- V. Cooperative Enterprise -- VI. Commons-oriented Enterprise. 
505 8 |a VII. False Alternatives? -- VIII. New Corporate Movement -- IX. Building the Regulatory Environment -- X. Conclusion -- References -- Part II Enterprise Diversity -- 11 Recognising Facts in Economic Democracy -- I. Theory and Empirical Tests -- II. It Must be for a Reason -- III. The Allocation of New Wealth -- IV. The John Lewis Partnership: Economic Effects of a Democratic Constitution -- V. Conclusion -- References -- 12 Can Reduced Shareholder Power Enable Corporate Stakeholder Accountability? The Case of Triodos Bank -- I. Introduction -- II. Theorising Corporate Stakeholder Accountability -- III. Research Methods -- IV. The Case of Triodos Bank -- V. Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- 13 The Arrival of B Corps in Britain: Another Milestone Towards a More Nuanced Economy? -- I. Introduction -- II. The Corporate Landscape in the UK into which B Corps have Launched -- III. B Corps-What they are and what they are not -- IV. Why become a B Corp? -- V. Reservations about B Corps -- VI. The Changing Corporate Landscape -- VII. The Place of the B Corp in the Wider Social Economy -- VIII. Where Next? -- IX. Conclusion: The Corporate Landscape and the Bigger Picture -- References -- 14 Danish Foundations and Cooperatives as Forms of Corporate Governance: Origins and Impacts on Firm Strategies and Societies -- I. Introduction -- II. Cooperatives -- III. Growth and Development of the Cooperatives and the Small Firms -- IV. Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- 15 What's in a Name? Reflections on the Marginalisation of the Co-operative as an Organisational Form -- I. Introduction -- II. Finding Funding for Co-operative Research: Two Vignettes -- III. Research Trends: The Contrasting Fortunes of 'Social Enterprises' and 'Co-operatives' -- IV. Social Enterprises as Alternative Modes of Organising. 
505 8 |a V. Enterprise Discourse and a Critique of Social Enterprise -- VI. Co-operatives and Social Innovation -- VII. Conclusion: Towards 'Propagandist and Defensive Action' -- References -- 16 The Internationalisation of the FairShares Model: Where Agency Meets Structure in US and UK Company Law -- I. Introduction -- II. Structuration and Social Economics -- III. Methodology -- IV. Conceptualising the Influence of Social Entrepreneurial Agency on Structures -- V. Conceptualising the Influence of Social Structures on Human Agency -- VI. Conclusions and Implications -- References -- 17 The Politics, Policy, Popular Perception and Practice of Social Enterprise in the Twenty-first Century -- I. What is Social Enterprise? -- II. Politics -- III. Policy -- IV. Popular Perception -- V. Practice -- VI. Conclusion -- References -- 18 Lessons from the Community Interest Company -- I. Background -- II. Governance -- III. Investment -- IV. Public Contracting -- V. Social Impact -- VI. Advice and Awareness -- VII. Conclusion -- References -- Conclusion -- I. Dysfunctional System -- II. An Alternative Economic Model -- III. Next Steps -- References -- Epilogue: Necessity, Organisation and Politics -- References -- Index. 
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