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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.

Contents

Contents

1. Corporate power2. Ownership, control and the pursuit of profit3. The legal control of management discretion4. Managerial efficiency5. Reinforcing and challenging the legal model6. Corporate governance: shareholder democracy and the monitoring board7. Management self dealing8. The enforcement of directors' duties9. Social responsibility within the current legal fabric10. An evaluation of profit sacrificing social responsibility11. Strengthening the constraints12. The democratic imperative: beyond social responsibility

Literature

  • Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means, The Modern Corporation and Private Property (1932)
  • Brian Cheffins, Company law: Theory, Structure and Operation (1998)

    • References

    Corporate Power and Responsibility Wikipedia
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