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The Oxford Handbook of the Corporation assesses the contemporary relevance, purpose, and performance of the corporation. The corporation is one of the most significant, if contested, innovations in human history, and the direction and effectiveness of corporate law, corporate governance, and corporate performance are being challenged as never before. Continuously evolving, the corporation as the primary instrument for wealth generation in contemporary economies demands frequent assessment and reinterpretation. The focus of this work is the transformative impact of innovation and change upon corporate structure, purpose, and operation. Corporate innovation is at the heart of the value-creation process in increasingly internationalized and competitive market economies, and corporations today are embedded in a world of complex global supply chains and rising state and state-directed capitalism. In questioning the fundamental purpose and performance of the corporation, this Handbook continues a tradition commenced by Berle and Means, and contributed to by generations of business scholars. What is the corporation and what is it becoming? How do we define its form and purpose and how are these changing? To whom is the corporation responsible, and who should judge the ultimate performance of corporations? By investigating the origins, development, strategies, and theories of corporations, this volume addresses such questions to provide a richer theoretical account of the corporation and its contested future.

1: Thomas Clarke, Justin O'Brien and Charles R. T. O'Kelley: The Evolving Corporation: Economy, Law, and Society I: Genesis of the Corporation 2: Paul Frentrop: The Dutch East India Company: The First Corporate Governance Debacle 3: Philip J. Stern: The English East India Company-State and the Modern Corporation: The Google of its Time? 4: William G. Roy: Socialising Capital: The Rise of the Industrial Corporation II: Corporate Purposes and Accountability 5: Charles R. T. O'Kelley: From Berle to the Present: The Shifting Primacies of Corporation Theory 6: Olivier Weinstein: Understanding the Roots of Shareholder Primacy: The Meaning of Agency Theory, and the Conditions of its Contagion III: Theories of the Firm 7: Shelley Marshall and Ian Ramsay: Corporate Purpose: Legal Interpretations and Empirical Evidence 8: Margaret M. Blair: Corporate Law as a Solution to Team Production Problems 9: Lynn Stout: Corporations as Sempiternal Legal Persons IV: Political Theory of the Corporation 10: John W. Cioffi: Finance Capitalism, the Financialised Corporation, and Countervailing Power 11: David Ciepley: The Neoliberal Corporation 12: Teemu Ruskola: Theorizing the Corporation: Liberal, Confucian and Socialist Perspectives V: Strategies of Contemporary Corporations 13: Thomas Clarke and Martijn Boersma: Global Corporations and Global Value Chains: The Disaggregation of Corporations? 14: Mauro F. Guillen and Esteban Garcia-Canal: Growth Strategies of the New Multinationals VI: Diversity of Institutions and Corporations 15: Jean-Francois Chanlat: Corporations, Organisation, and Human Action: An Anthropological Critique of Agency Theory 16: Takaya Seki: The Japanese Corporation: Community, Purpose, and Strategy VII: The Innovative Corporation 17: Christos N. Pitelis and David J. Teece: Dynamic Capabilities, the Multinational Corporation, and Capturing Co-created Value from Innovation 18: William Lazonick: The Theory of Innovative Enterprise: Foundations of Economic Analysis 19: Danielle M. Logue: Corporations in the Clouds? The Transformation of the Corporation in an Era of Disruptive Innovations VIII: The Responsible Corporation 20: Nicolai Foss and Stefan Linder: The Changing Nature of the Corporation and the Economic Theory of the Firm 21: Cynthia A. Williams: Corporate Responsibility and the Embedded Firm: A Critical Reappraisal IX: The Sustainable Corporation 22: Thomas Clarke: The Greening of the Corporation 23: Suzanne Benn and Melissa Edwards: Corporate Sustainability in a Fragile Planet X: The Future of the Corporation 24: Bronwen Morgan: Transcending the Corporation: Social Enterprise, Cooperatives and Commons-Based Governance 25: Simon Deakin: The Evolution of Corporate Form: From Shareholders' Property to the Corporation as Commons

Author(s)	Edited by Thomas Clarke (Professor of Corporate Governance, Professor of Corporate Governance, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney), Justin O'Brien (University of Sydney), Charles O'Kelley (Director, Adolf A. Berle Jr Center on Corporations, Law and Society, Director, Adolf A. Berle Jr Center on Corporations, Law and Society, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle University).
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN	9780198737063
Format	Hardback
Pages	760
Published in	United Kingdom
Published	5 Mar 2019
Availability	Available

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