Research Handbook on Corporate Purpose and Personhood / edited by Elizabeth Pollman and Robert B. Thompson.

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Series: Research handbooks in corporate law and governance | Research handbooks in corporate law and governancePublisher: Cheltenham, Glos., UK : Northampton, Massachusetts, USA : Edgar Elgar Publishing Limited ; Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2021Copyright date: © 2021Description: xvi, 416 pages ; 25 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

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9781789902907
1789902908

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Research handbook on corporate purpose and personhood.DDC classification:

346.065 POL 23

LOC classification:

KF1384 .R47 2021

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Table of Contents

Contents:

Contents Contributors; Corporate purpose and personhood: an introduction; PART I JUMPING OFF POINTS FOR A NEW LOOK AT TRADITIONAL TOPICS; 1. What Jensen and Meckling really said about the public company; 2. Business purpose and the objective of the corporation; 3. A more equitable corporate purpose; PART II SHAREHOLDERS VS. STAKEHOLDERS, BENEFIT CORPORATIONS, AND ESG; 4. The “value” of a public benefit corporation; 5. Enlightened shareholder value, stakeholderism, and the quest for managerial accountability; 6. The shareholder-stakeholder alliance: exposing the link between shareholder power and the rise of; 7. ESG investing, or, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em; 8. Purpose in business association statutes: much ado about something (but not much); 9. For whom is the corporation managed and what is its purpose? A stakeholder perspective based on; PART III BROADER THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR GROUNDING VIEWS OF CORPORATE PURPOSE AND PERSONHOOD 10. Shareholder primacy is illogical; 11. The “franchise” view of the corporation: purpose, personality, public policy; 12. Corporate personality, purpose, and liability; 13. Facts and values in corporate legal theory; PART IV CORPORATE PERSONALITY, POLITICS, AND RIGHTS; 14. Regulatory partitioning as a key function of corporate personality; 15. Corporate personhood and the putative First Amendment right to discriminate; 16. The corporation’s political purpose; 17. Personhood, procedure and the endurance of corporate compliance; PART V LESSONS FROM COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDY AND POSSIBLE WAYS FORWARD; 18. Beyond shareholder value: exploring justifications for a broader corporate purpose; 19. Lessons from India’s struggles with corporate purpose; 20. Varieties of shareholderism: three views of the corporate purpose cathedral; Index

Summary: This insightful Research Handbook contributes to the theoretical and practical understanding of corporate purpose and personhood, which has become the central debate of corporate law. It provides cutting-edge thoughts on the role of corporations in society and the nature of their rights and responsibilities.

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Contents
Contributors;
Corporate purpose and personhood: an introduction;
PART I JUMPING OFF POINTS FOR A NEW LOOK AT TRADITIONAL TOPICS;
1. What Jensen and Meckling really said about the public company;
2. Business purpose and the objective of the corporation;
3. A more equitable corporate purpose;
PART II SHAREHOLDERS VS. STAKEHOLDERS, BENEFIT CORPORATIONS, AND ESG;
4. The “value” of a public benefit corporation;
5. Enlightened shareholder value, stakeholderism, and the quest for managerial accountability;
6. The shareholder-stakeholder alliance: exposing the link between shareholder power and the rise of;
7. ESG investing, or, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em;
8. Purpose in business association statutes: much ado about something (but not much);
9. For whom is the corporation managed and what is its purpose? A stakeholder perspective based on;
PART III BROADER THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR GROUNDING VIEWS OF CORPORATE PURPOSE AND PERSONHOOD
10. Shareholder primacy is illogical;
11. The “franchise” view of the corporation: purpose, personality, public policy;
12. Corporate personality, purpose, and liability;
13. Facts and values in corporate legal theory;
PART IV CORPORATE PERSONALITY, POLITICS, AND RIGHTS;
14. Regulatory partitioning as a key function of corporate personality;
15. Corporate personhood and the putative First Amendment right to discriminate;
16. The corporation’s political purpose;
17. Personhood, procedure and the endurance of corporate compliance;
PART V LESSONS FROM COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDY AND POSSIBLE WAYS FORWARD;
18. Beyond shareholder value: exploring justifications for a broader corporate purpose;
19. Lessons from India’s struggles with corporate purpose;
20. Varieties of shareholderism: three views of the corporate purpose cathedral;
Index

This insightful Research Handbook contributes to the theoretical and practical understanding of corporate purpose and personhood, which has become the central debate of corporate law. It provides cutting-edge thoughts on the role of corporations in society and the nature of their rights and responsibilities.

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