Progressive Corporate Governance for the 21st Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-56382-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 575 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Corporate Law

Progressive Corporate Governance for the 21st Century is a wide ranging and ambitious study of why corporate governance is in the shape that it is, and how it can be improved. The book sets out the emergence of a shareholder primacy orientated corporate governance using a study of historical development in the United Kingdom and the United States. Talbot sees shareholder primacy as a political choice made by governments, not a "natural" feature of the inevitable market. She describes the periods of progressive corporate governance which governments adopted in the middle of the twentieth century with a close examination of the theories of the company which then prevailed. She critically examines the rise of neoliberal theories on the company and corporate governance and argues that their approach and impact is socially regressive. In examining contemporary corporate governance she shows how the form of governance, as informed and described by prevailing regulatory theories, enables neoliberal outcomes. She illustrates how United Kingdom-derived corporate governance codes have had global influence, constructing the corporate governance initiatives of European and global institutions. She argues that the form of the Codes enables a neoliberal agenda to proliferate with negative social consequences. After illustrating how ex-command economies were earlier subjected to failed and destructive neoliberal proscriptions for transition she shows how neoliberalism has re-entered these economies through United Kingdom and OECD inspired corporate governance Codes. The book concludes with suggestions for new approaches to corporate governance which would make the company work for the people, rather than the shareholder.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Talbot, Lorraine

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Progressive Thought and the Historical Emergence of the Company in England 1770-1900 2. Corporate Governance in the United Kingdom in the Twentieth Century including a period of Progressive Governance 3. The United States and Progressive Governance: The Historical Development of the American Corporation 1790-1944 4. The Managerialists’ Progressive Corporation and the Rise of Neo-Liberal Corporate Governance 5. The Retreat from Progress: Modern Corporate Governance, Substance and Form 6. The March to anti-progressiveness: Neo-Liberalism and Transition Economies 7. Conclusion: And in Conclusion: Towards a Progressive Corporate Governance

Über Autor(innen)

Talbot, Lorraine
Lorraine Talbot is an Associate Professor at Warwick Law School at the University of Warwick. She has written, researched and taught extensively on contextual, historical and critical approaches to company law, corporate governance and business organisations. She is currently writing the second edition of her 2008 book Critical Company Law and has published in many journals including the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Common Law World Review and the Seattle Law Review. Lorraine is general editor of Warwick Law School's working papers and manages Warwick’s multi-cultural scholars' programme.