Author: Scott Bowman
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271044136
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Modern Corporation and American Political Thought
Author: Scott Bowman
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271044136
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271044136
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The Modern Corporation and Private Property
Author: Adolf Augustus Berle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporation law
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporation law
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Managerial Issues in Digital Transformation of Global Modern Corporations
Author: Esakki, Thangasamy
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1799824047
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Efficient management of managerial tasks by capable managers is essential in order to grow and remain competitive in today’s global business market. On the other hand, digital transformation enables organizations to better compete with their global counterparts. In the process of digital transformation, many firms find it difficult to acquire qualified leadership with adequate knowledge and competence to drive success. Without integrating the dual edges of managerial competence and digital evolution, it is next to impossible for a firm to both survive and grow. Managerial Issues in Digital Transformation of Global Modern Corporations is a critical scholarly publication that examines current challenges in the digital transformation of modern business corporations from a managerial and leadership perspective. Featuring a wide range of topics such as digital transformation, marketing, and global business, this book is ideal for corporate executives, managers, IT specialists, entrepreneurs, business administrators, industry practitioners, academicians, researchers, policymakers, and students from various relevant disciplines that include economics, information and technology, business administration, management science, and commerce.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1799824047
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Efficient management of managerial tasks by capable managers is essential in order to grow and remain competitive in today’s global business market. On the other hand, digital transformation enables organizations to better compete with their global counterparts. In the process of digital transformation, many firms find it difficult to acquire qualified leadership with adequate knowledge and competence to drive success. Without integrating the dual edges of managerial competence and digital evolution, it is next to impossible for a firm to both survive and grow. Managerial Issues in Digital Transformation of Global Modern Corporations is a critical scholarly publication that examines current challenges in the digital transformation of modern business corporations from a managerial and leadership perspective. Featuring a wide range of topics such as digital transformation, marketing, and global business, this book is ideal for corporate executives, managers, IT specialists, entrepreneurs, business administrators, industry practitioners, academicians, researchers, policymakers, and students from various relevant disciplines that include economics, information and technology, business administration, management science, and commerce.
Governing the Modern Corporation
Author: Roy C. Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195171675
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Nearly seventy years after the last great stock market bubble and crash, another bubble emerged and burst, despite a thick layer of regulation designed since the 1930s to prevent such things. This time the bubble was enormous, reflecting nearly twenty years of double-digit stock market growth, and its bursting had painful consequence. The search for culprits soon began, and many were discovered, including not only a number of overreaching corporations, but also their auditors, investment bankers, lawyers and indeed, their investors. In Governing the Modern Corporation, Smith and Walter analyze the structure of market capitalism to see what went wrong.They begin by examining the developments that have made modern financial markets--now capitalized globally at about $70 trillion--so enormous, so volatile and such a source of wealth (and temptation) for all players. Then they report on the evolving role and function of the business corporation, the duties of its officers and directors and the power of its Chief Executive Officer who seeks to manage the company to achieve as favorable a stock price as possible.They next turn to the investing market itself, which comprises mainly financial institutions that own about two-thirds of all American stocks and trade about 90% of these stocks. These investors are well informed, highly trained professionals capable of making intelligent investment decisions on behalf of their clients, yet the best and brightest ultimately succumbed to the bubble and failed to carry out an appropriate governance role.In what follows, the roles and business practices of the principal financial intermediaries--notably auditors and bankers--are examined in detail. All, corporations, investors and intermediaries, are found to have been infected by deep-seated conflicts of interest, which add significant agency costs to the free-market system. The imperfect, politicized role of the regulators is also explored, with disappointing results. The entire system is seen to have been compromised by a variety of bacteria that crept in, little by little, over the years and were virtually invisible during the bubble years.These issues are now being addressed, in part by new regulation, in part by prosecutions and class action lawsuits, and in part by market forces responding to revelations of misconduct. But the authors note that all of the market's professional players--executives, investors, experts and intermediaries themselves--carry fiduciary obligations to the shareholders, clients, and investors whom they represent. More has to be done to find ways for these fiduciaries to be held accountable for the correct discharge of their duties.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195171675
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Nearly seventy years after the last great stock market bubble and crash, another bubble emerged and burst, despite a thick layer of regulation designed since the 1930s to prevent such things. This time the bubble was enormous, reflecting nearly twenty years of double-digit stock market growth, and its bursting had painful consequence. The search for culprits soon began, and many were discovered, including not only a number of overreaching corporations, but also their auditors, investment bankers, lawyers and indeed, their investors. In Governing the Modern Corporation, Smith and Walter analyze the structure of market capitalism to see what went wrong.They begin by examining the developments that have made modern financial markets--now capitalized globally at about $70 trillion--so enormous, so volatile and such a source of wealth (and temptation) for all players. Then they report on the evolving role and function of the business corporation, the duties of its officers and directors and the power of its Chief Executive Officer who seeks to manage the company to achieve as favorable a stock price as possible.They next turn to the investing market itself, which comprises mainly financial institutions that own about two-thirds of all American stocks and trade about 90% of these stocks. These investors are well informed, highly trained professionals capable of making intelligent investment decisions on behalf of their clients, yet the best and brightest ultimately succumbed to the bubble and failed to carry out an appropriate governance role.In what follows, the roles and business practices of the principal financial intermediaries--notably auditors and bankers--are examined in detail. All, corporations, investors and intermediaries, are found to have been infected by deep-seated conflicts of interest, which add significant agency costs to the free-market system. The imperfect, politicized role of the regulators is also explored, with disappointing results. The entire system is seen to have been compromised by a variety of bacteria that crept in, little by little, over the years and were virtually invisible during the bubble years.These issues are now being addressed, in part by new regulation, in part by prosecutions and class action lawsuits, and in part by market forces responding to revelations of misconduct. But the authors note that all of the market's professional players--executives, investors, experts and intermediaries themselves--carry fiduciary obligations to the shareholders, clients, and investors whom they represent. More has to be done to find ways for these fiduciaries to be held accountable for the correct discharge of their duties.
Building Brands
Author: Grace Ong Yan
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781848224070
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Between the Stock Market Crash and the Vietnam War, American corporations were responsible for the construction of thousands of headquarters across the United States. Over this time, the design of corporate headquarters evolved from Beaux-Arts facades to bold modernist expressions. This book examines how clients and architects together crafted buildings to reflect their company's brand, carefully considering consumers' perception and their emotions towards the architecture and the messages they communicated. By focusing on four American corporate headquarters: the PSFS Building by George Howe and William Lescaze, the Johnson Wax Administration Building by Frank Lloyd Wright, Lever House by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and The Röhm & Haas Building by Pietro Belluschi, it shows how corporate modernism evolved. In the 1930s, architecture and branding were separate and distinct and by the 1960s, they were completely integrated. Drawing on interviews and original material from corporations' archives, it examines how company leaders, together with their architects, conceived of their corporate headquarters not only as the consolidation of employee workplaces, but as architectural mediums to communicate their corporate identities and brands.
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781848224070
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Between the Stock Market Crash and the Vietnam War, American corporations were responsible for the construction of thousands of headquarters across the United States. Over this time, the design of corporate headquarters evolved from Beaux-Arts facades to bold modernist expressions. This book examines how clients and architects together crafted buildings to reflect their company's brand, carefully considering consumers' perception and their emotions towards the architecture and the messages they communicated. By focusing on four American corporate headquarters: the PSFS Building by George Howe and William Lescaze, the Johnson Wax Administration Building by Frank Lloyd Wright, Lever House by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and The Röhm & Haas Building by Pietro Belluschi, it shows how corporate modernism evolved. In the 1930s, architecture and branding were separate and distinct and by the 1960s, they were completely integrated. Drawing on interviews and original material from corporations' archives, it examines how company leaders, together with their architects, conceived of their corporate headquarters not only as the consolidation of employee workplaces, but as architectural mediums to communicate their corporate identities and brands.
Green Marketing and Environmental Responsibility in Modern Corporations
Author: Esakki, Thangasamy
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1522523324
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
In modern society, it has become increasingly important to consumers that their products be environmentally safe. Green marketing is the most efficient way for corporations to convey that their merchandise is environmentally ethical, which in turn increases profit. Green Marketing and Environmental Responsibility in Modern Corporations is a comprehensive resource for the latest material on the methods and techniques that contemporary industries are employing to raise awareness on sustainable products. Featuring comprehensive coverage across a range of relevant topics such as green consumption, organic food products, supply chain performance, and ecological marketing, this publication is an ideal reference source for professionals, practitioners, academics, and researchers interested in the latest material on sustainable corporate operations.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1522523324
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
In modern society, it has become increasingly important to consumers that their products be environmentally safe. Green marketing is the most efficient way for corporations to convey that their merchandise is environmentally ethical, which in turn increases profit. Green Marketing and Environmental Responsibility in Modern Corporations is a comprehensive resource for the latest material on the methods and techniques that contemporary industries are employing to raise awareness on sustainable products. Featuring comprehensive coverage across a range of relevant topics such as green consumption, organic food products, supply chain performance, and ecological marketing, this publication is an ideal reference source for professionals, practitioners, academics, and researchers interested in the latest material on sustainable corporate operations.
The Corporation That Changed the World
Author: Nick Robins
Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745331966
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles, and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Company's practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today. The Corporation That Changed the World is the first book to reveal the Company's enduring legacy as a corporation. This expanded edition explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance, and regulation drove its spectacular rise and fall. For decades, the Company was simply too big to fail, and stock market bubbles, famines, drug-running, and even duels between rival executives are to be found in this new account. For Robins, the Company's story provides vital lessons on both the role of corporations in world history and the steps required to make global business accountable today.
Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745331966
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles, and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Company's practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today. The Corporation That Changed the World is the first book to reveal the Company's enduring legacy as a corporation. This expanded edition explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance, and regulation drove its spectacular rise and fall. For decades, the Company was simply too big to fail, and stock market bubbles, famines, drug-running, and even duels between rival executives are to be found in this new account. For Robins, the Company's story provides vital lessons on both the role of corporations in world history and the steps required to make global business accountable today.
The Corporation and Its Stakeholders
Author: Max B.E. Clarkson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 144263989X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
There is an active debate over whether the traditional purpose of the corporation – to maximize profits and financial value for the benefit of shareholders – can adequately encompass the interests of all other participants or stakeholders in the corporation's activities. Since a corporation cannot operate optimally without the support of its most important stakeholders, particularly its employees and customers, finding ways of incorporating responsiveness to stakeholder needs is vital for corporate management and governance. This anthology is designed to sharpen the debate about the role and purpose of the corporation. The debate includes such fundamental questions as: Who should be considered stakeholders? Which stakeholder interests should a corporation take into account? How should stakeholder interests be balanced against shareholder objectives (such as profits)? What changes should be made in corporate decision making and governance to reflect these new interests? This collection of seminal articles, is divided into three parts: Shareholders and Stakeholders; Morality, Ethics and Stakeholder Theory; and Stakeholder Theory and Management Performance. The articles date from 1916 to 1997, and are drawn from North American and European authors. Managers as well as researchers will find this collection presented will stimulate their thinking on the role of the corporation and its responsiveness to stakeholder interests. The volume is funded in part by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 144263989X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
There is an active debate over whether the traditional purpose of the corporation – to maximize profits and financial value for the benefit of shareholders – can adequately encompass the interests of all other participants or stakeholders in the corporation's activities. Since a corporation cannot operate optimally without the support of its most important stakeholders, particularly its employees and customers, finding ways of incorporating responsiveness to stakeholder needs is vital for corporate management and governance. This anthology is designed to sharpen the debate about the role and purpose of the corporation. The debate includes such fundamental questions as: Who should be considered stakeholders? Which stakeholder interests should a corporation take into account? How should stakeholder interests be balanced against shareholder objectives (such as profits)? What changes should be made in corporate decision making and governance to reflect these new interests? This collection of seminal articles, is divided into three parts: Shareholders and Stakeholders; Morality, Ethics and Stakeholder Theory; and Stakeholder Theory and Management Performance. The articles date from 1916 to 1997, and are drawn from North American and European authors. Managers as well as researchers will find this collection presented will stimulate their thinking on the role of the corporation and its responsiveness to stakeholder interests. The volume is funded in part by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Corporations and American Democracy
Author: Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674977718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked passionate disagreement about the proper role of corporations in American democracy. Partisans on both sides have made bold claims, often with little basis in historical facts. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy provides the historical and intellectual grounding necessary to put today’s corporate policy debates in proper context. From the nation’s founding to the present, Americans have regarded corporations with ambivalence—embracing their potential to revolutionize economic life and yet remaining wary of their capacity to undermine democratic institutions. Although corporations were originally created to give businesses and other associations special legal rights and privileges, historically they were denied many of the constitutional protections afforded flesh-and-blood citizens. This comprehensive volume covers a range of topics, including the origins of corporations in English and American law, the historical shift from special charters to general incorporation, the increased variety of corporations that this shift made possible, and the roots of modern corporate regulation in the Progressive Era and New Deal. It also covers the evolution of judicial views of corporate rights, particularly since corporations have become the form of choice for an increasing variety of nonbusiness organizations, including political advocacy groups. Ironically, in today’s global economy the decline of large, vertically integrated corporations—the type of corporation that past reform movements fought so hard to regulate—poses some of the newest challenges to effective government oversight of the economy.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674977718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked passionate disagreement about the proper role of corporations in American democracy. Partisans on both sides have made bold claims, often with little basis in historical facts. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy provides the historical and intellectual grounding necessary to put today’s corporate policy debates in proper context. From the nation’s founding to the present, Americans have regarded corporations with ambivalence—embracing their potential to revolutionize economic life and yet remaining wary of their capacity to undermine democratic institutions. Although corporations were originally created to give businesses and other associations special legal rights and privileges, historically they were denied many of the constitutional protections afforded flesh-and-blood citizens. This comprehensive volume covers a range of topics, including the origins of corporations in English and American law, the historical shift from special charters to general incorporation, the increased variety of corporations that this shift made possible, and the roots of modern corporate regulation in the Progressive Era and New Deal. It also covers the evolution of judicial views of corporate rights, particularly since corporations have become the form of choice for an increasing variety of nonbusiness organizations, including political advocacy groups. Ironically, in today’s global economy the decline of large, vertically integrated corporations—the type of corporation that past reform movements fought so hard to regulate—poses some of the newest challenges to effective government oversight of the economy.
Corporations
Author: John P. Davis
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 1587980118
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
An early treatment of the history of corporations.
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 1587980118
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
An early treatment of the history of corporations.