Full Description
Recent decades have witnessed environmental, social, and economic upheaval, with major corporations contributing to a host of interconnected crises. The Corporation as Technology examines the dynamics of the corporate form and corporate law that incentivize harmful excesses and presents an alternative vision to render corporate activities more sustainable.
The corporate form is commonly described as a set of fixed characteristics that strongly prioritize shareholders' interests. This book subverts this widely held belief, suggesting that such rigid depictions reinforce harmful corporate pathologies, including excessive risk-taking and lack of regard for environmental and social impacts. Instead, corporations are presented as a dynamic legal technology that policymakers can re-calibrate over time in response to changing landscapes.
This book explores the theoretical and practical ramifications of this alternative vision, focusing on how the corporate form can help secure an environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable future.
Contents
PART ONE: THE DYNAMISM OF THE CORPORATION
Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview
Chapter 2. Defining the Corporation and Corporate Law
Chapter 3. Contextual Drivers of Difference
PART TWO: RE-CONCEPTUALIZING THE CORPORATION
Chapter 4. Enduring Controversies in Corporate Law
Chapter 5. The Corporation as Technology
PART THREE: HARNESSING THE CORPORATION
Chapter 6. Corporate Pathologies and Corporate Sustainability
Chapter 7. Re-Calibrating Governance: Industry-by-Industry Approaches
Chapter 8. Re-Imagining Corporate Accountability
Chapter 9. Conclusions
