Christopher M Bruner

The Corporation as Technology

Re-Calibrating Corporate Governance for a Sustainable Future

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recent decades have witnessed environmental, social, and economic upheaval, with major corporations contributing to a host of interconnected crises. This book examines the dynamics of corporate form that incentivize harmful excesses and presents an alternative vision to help secure an environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 165mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780197635179
• ISBN-10: 0197635172
• Artikelnr.: 63733337

Autorenporträt

Christopher M. Bruner is the Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. His scholarship focuses on corporate law, corporate governance, comparative law, and sustainability, and he has written several books on these topics. He received his A.B., M.Phil., and J.D. from the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and Harvard Law School, respectively.

Inhaltsangabe

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