Corporate Power and Responsibility
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Corporate Power and Responsibility: Issues in the Theory of Company Law (1993) is a seminal book in UK company law by J.E. Parkinson. Its focus is corporate governance
from a progressive perspective which charts the flaws and maps the reforms needed to match the responsibility modern corporations have to their responsibility.
Corporate governance
Corporate governance is a number of processes, customs, policies, laws, and institutions which have impact on the way a company is controlled...
from a progressive perspective which charts the flaws and maps the reforms needed to match the responsibility modern corporations have to their responsibility.
Contents
- 1. Corporate Power
- 2. Ownership, control and the pursuit of profit
- 3. The legal control of management discretion
- 4. Managerial efficiency
- 5. Reinforcing and challenging the legal model
- 6. Corporate governance: shareholder democracy and the monitoring board
- 7. Management self dealing
- 8. The enforcement of directors' duties
- 9. Social responsibility within the current legal fabric
- 10. An evaluation of profit sacrificing social responsibility
- 11. Strengthening the constraints
- 12. The democratic imperative: beyond social responsibility
See also
- Adolf Berle and Gardiner MeansGardiner MeansGardiner C. Means was an American economist. He worked at Harvard University where he met Adolf Berle. Together they wrote the seminal work of corporate governance, The Modern Corporation and Private Property. Means followed the institutionalist tradition of economists...
, The Modern Corporation and Private Property (1932) - Brian Cheffins, Company law: Theory, Structure and Operation (1998)