| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreward -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Corporate Governance Views and Theories -- Chapter 1: Who Holds the Power? Corporate Governance in America -- Chapter 2: A Review of Theories for the Modern Firm; Realistic Theoretical Choices; Embeddedness and Networks; Institutional Theory; Agency Theory -- Part II A Modern Networked Theory of the Firm -- Chapter 3: A Network Governance Model of the Firm -- Chapter 4: The Working Firm -- Chapter 5: The Legitimizing Firm -- Chapter 6: The Stock Market Bureaucracy -- Part III Case Study: The Financial Crisis in America -- Chapter 7: Power of the Middlemen -- Chapter 8: Cliques of Legitimizing Leaders -- Chapter 9: Democratization as an Institutionalized Myth -- Part IV Solutions: Sustainable Corporate Governance -- Chapter 10: A Superior Model -- Sustainability -- Chapter 11: Examples of International Corporate Governance -- Chapter 12: Scenarios for a Redistribution of Power in America -- Part V Conclusions -- Chapter 13: Implications and Future Research for Management Scholars -- Chapter 14: Implications for Policy and Practice |
| Summary |
De Lange suggests a new contextually linked building block model to develop theories of the firm in the field of strategy and organizations. Using this approach, she proposes two models: one that is a realistic American version and another that is a futuristic sustainable model. Both are new networked models that integrate current theories; a review of international corporate governance supports the sustainable firm that solves problems of the current one. Through a revised theoretical lens, the book answers a provocative question surrounding modern corporate America: Who wields the power? In this investigative look at the institutional mechanisms behind who is truly running the show, Cliques and Capitalism seeks to not only explain why the current corporate system fails to function well, but also offers solutions for improved corporate governance through a new sustainable model |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Capitalism.
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Corporate governance.
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Business strategy.
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Organizational theory & behaviour.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Free Enterprise.
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Business and Management.
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Capitalism
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Corporate governance
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137016195 |
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1137016191 |
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