Stephen M. Bainbridge (Los Angeles University of California)

The Profit Motive

Defending Shareholder Value Maximization

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Profit Motive addresses questions of corporate purpose using historical, legal, and economic perspectives. It counters proponents of social corporate responsibility and defends the maximization of shareholder value and shareholder capitalism, as both what the law requires and what it ought to require.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781316515471
• ISBN-10: 1316515478
• Artikelnr.: 65337235

Autorenporträt

Stephen M. Bainbridge is the William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. The Law: 1. The Battle of River Rouge; 2. Fireplug
Funding For Princeton; 3. Why Didn't the Cubs Have to Play Night Baseball?
4. Defending Dodge; 5. To Make Stakeholder Capitalism the Rule, You Would
Have to Change Most of Corporate Law; 6. What About the Benefit
Corporation? Part II. The Merits: 7. Possible Merits of the Business
Roundtable's Embrace of Stakeholder Capitalism; 8. Was There a Business
Case for the Business Roundtable's Embrace of Stakeholder Capitalism? 9.
Why did the Business Roundtable CEOs Shift Their Position?10. Why the
Business Roundtable CEOs Should Have Stayed the Course; Conclusion.