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The embedded firm : corporate governance, labor, and finance capitalism /

"The globalization of capital markets since the 1980s has been accompanied by a vigorous debate over the convergence of corporate governance standards around the world towards the shareholder model. But even before the financial and economic crisis of 2008/2009, the dominance of the shareholder...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Williams, Cynthia A., 1955-, Zumbansen, Peer, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction : corporate governance after the 'end of history' : investigating the new 'great transformation' / Cynthia A. Williams and Peer Zumbansen
  • Part I. Historical trajectories of business and regulation : 2. Corporate governance and financial crisis in the long run / Simon Deakin
  • 3. Financialism : a (very) brief history / Lawrence E. Mitchell
  • 4. Legitimating power : the changing status of the board of directors / Dalia Tsuk Mitchell
  • 5. Engaging corporate boards : the limits of liability rules in modern corporate governance / William T. Allen
  • 6. The primacy of Delaware and the embeddedness of the firm / Fenner Stewart, Jr.
  • 7. The new embeddedness of the corporation : corporate social responsibility in the knowledge society / Peer Zumbansen
  • Part II. New interests, new shareholder constellations, new landscapes : 8. Beyond the Berle and Means paradigm : private equity and the new capitalist order / Stephen F. Diamond
  • 9. Pension funds as owners and as financial intermediaries : a review of recent Canadian experience / Simon Archer
  • 10. Credit derivatives market design : creating fairness and sustainability / Janis Sarra
  • 11. The EU Takeovers Directive : a shareholder or stakeholder model? / Blanaid Clarke
  • 12. 'Law and finance' : inaccurate, incomplete, and important / Ruth V. Aguilera and Cynthia A. Williams
  • Part III. Labor's evolution in the new economy
  • 13. Labor and finance in the United States / Sanford M. Jacoby
  • 14. The conflicting logic of markets and the management of production / Suzanne Konzelmann and Frank Wilkinson
  • 15. Organizing workers globally : the need for public policy to regulate investment / John Evans
  • 16. From governance to political economy : insights from a study of relations between corporations and workers / Harry W. Arthurs and Claire Mummé
  • Part IV. The transnational embedded firm and the financial crisis
  • 17. The intellectual foundations of the global financial crisis : analysis and proposals for reform / Frank Jan De Graaf and Cynthia A. Williams
  • 18. Why executive pay matters to innovation and inequality / William Lazonick
  • 19. Products, perimeters and politics : systemic risk and securities regulation / Mary Condon
  • 20. Modernizing pension fund legal standards for the twenty-first century / Keith L. Johnson and Frank Jan De Graaf
  • Part V. Conclusion :
  • 21. Conclusion : evaluation, policy proposals and research agenda Cynthia A. Williams and Peer Zumbansen.