Corporate Power and Responsibility
- 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
- 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 Means, The Modern Corporation and Private Property (1932)
- Brian Cheffins, Company law: Theory, Structure and Operation (1998)
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