Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Corporations and Civil Society: Institutional Externalities of Corporate Power; 2 The Turbulence of the 1980s; I Overview and Background; 3 Contractarians and Imposers; 4 Contractarians and Balancers; 5 Major Delaware Decisions of the 1980s and 1990s; II Sources of Judicial Drift; 6 Why Contractarians Fail to Explain Judicial Behavior; 7 Why Imposers Fail to Explain Judicial Behavior; 8 Legislative Action: Stakeholder Balancing and Its Limits; 9 Contractarian Reaction: Opting Out; III Corporate Law and Judicial Practice in a Global Economy
10 America's Constitutional Court forIntermediary Associations11 Beyond the Failures: A Threshold of Procedural Norms; 12 Time-Warner and Institutional Externalities: From Culture to Form; 13 Explaining and Predicting Judicial Behavior in a Global Economy; Notes; References; Index; About the Author
Summary
The corporate mega-mergers of the 1980s and 1990s raise many troubling questions for social scientists and legal scholars. Do corporate globalism and the new, streamlined corporation help or hinder the development of civil society? Does the new power that increasingly deregulated businesses wield undermine the rights of citizens, or is this threat being exaggerated? Who has the authority to get things done in a corporation's name and who can be held legally responsible for a corporation's misbehavior? What role, if any, should the courts play in strengthening the rights of individuals who chal
