| Description |
1 online resource (564 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: why the corporation? / Grietje Baars and Andre Spicer -- The corporation in history / Philip Stern -- The corporation in legal studies / Simon Deakin -- The corporation in economics / William Lazonick -- The corporation in sociology / Gerald F Davis and Suntae Kim -- The corporation in anthropology / Robert J Foster -- The corporation in political science / Bastiaan van Apeldoorn and Nana de Graaff -- The corporation in geography / Andrew Jones -- The corporation in accounting / Mahmoud Ezzamel and Keith Robson -- The corporation in management / Jeroen Veldman and Hugh Willmott -- Between company and state : the dutch east and west india companies as brokers between war and profit / Pepijn Brandon -- Early modern business projects and a forgotten history of corporate social responsibility / Koji Yamamoto -- Finance and the origins of modern company law / Paddy Ireland -- The multinational as a corporate form : a critical contribution from organization studies / Glenn Morgan -- Embedding the multinational corporation in transnational sustainability governance / Luc Fransen -- Banks as global corporations : from entities to 'ecological habitats' / Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan -- The structure and agency of financialization / Laura Horn -- Financialized business models and the corporation / Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams -- Transnational corporations and the international tax haven and offshore : finance system / Sol Picciotto -- The nature of the firm in global value chains / Elena Baglioni, Liam Campling and Elizabeth Havice -- The corporation and the global value chain / Jennifer Bair -- Global production networks and the changing corporation / David Levy and Florence Palpacuer -- The functions and dysfunctions of corporate social responsibility / Steve Tombs -- Reconsidering the critical corporate social responsibility perspective through french pragmatic sociology : subverting corporate do-gooding for the common good? / Jean-Pascal Gond -- Certification schemes and labelling as corporate governance : the value of silence / Tomaso Ferrando -- The criminal corporate person / David Whyte -- The fbi on corporate crime : examining the influence of corporate culture / Garry Gray -- Mental blockades in the recognition of mens rea in corporations / Harmen van der Wilt -- Bad parresia : CSR and corporate mystification today / Peter Fleming -- Capital, corporate citizenship and legitimacy : the ideological force of 'corporate crime' / Grietje Baars -- Corporate foundations and ideology / Inderjeet Parmar -- Articulating and disarticulating corporation and community / Marina Welker -- Communities within and without of the corporation : control, power and interests / James Faulconbridge -- Coercion and corporate power : notes on class struggle in an Indian city / Andrew Sanchez -- Organizing in the nervous system : global trade unions and global production networks / David Hansen-Miller -- Rethinking workplace resistance : between revolt and co-optation / Roland Paulsen -- Anarchist versus corporate ethics / Benjamin Franks -- Resisting and regulating corporations through ecologies of alternative enterprise : insurance and electricity in the us case / Marc Schneiberg -- The psychological crisis of the corporation : employee-owned alternatives and futures / William Davies -- Organization is politics made durable: principles and alternatives / Martin Parker, George Cheney, Valerie Fournier and Chris Land |
| Summary |
The corporation has become an increasingly dominant force in contemporary society. However, comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the concept of the corporation is often restricted, or limited to one disciplinary approach. This handbook brings together the cutting-edge scholarship, expertise and insight of leading scholars in a wide range of disciplines, notably management studies, law, history, political science, anthropology, sociology and criminology, using a critical approach to dissect and understand the corporation. Ten chapters provide overviews of the state of play of critical scholarship on the corporation in each of these disciplines. Further contributors tackle current hot topics, such as corporate social responsibility, corporate crime, global value chains, financialization, and the interaction between corporations and communities. Finally, they consider resistance and alternatives to the corporation. With its interdisciplinary approach, this book is an invaluable resource for all readers studying the past, present and future of the corporation |
| Notes |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2017) |
| Bibliography |
Included bibliographicsl references and index |
| Subject |
Corporations -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Corporation law -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior.
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Corporation law.
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Corporations.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baars, Grietje, 1972- editor.
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Spicer, Andre, editor
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| ISBN |
9781139681025 |
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1139681028 |
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