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

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boeger, Nina
Other Authors: Villiers, Charlotte
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2018.
Subjects:
Stockholders > Legal status, laws, etc. > Great Britain.
Corporation law > Great Britain.
Corporate governance > Law and legislation > Great Britain.
Corporate governance > Law and legislation
Corporation law
Stockholders > Legal status, laws, etc.
Great Britain
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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