The American corporation today / edited by Carl Kaysen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaysen, Carl, contributor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporations--United States.

Corporations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study examines the many aspects of the large business corporation including its historical evolution, its relation to the law, its financing, its contribution to technology, its role as employer, race and gender issues within it and its role as political actor.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Contributors; 1. Introduction and Overview; 2. The Rise and Transformation of the American Corporation; 3. How American Is the American Corporation?; 4. From Antitrust to Corporation Governance? The Corporation and the Law: 1959-1994; 5. Financing the American Corporation: The Changing Menu of Financial Relationships; 6. The U.S. Corporation and Technical Progress; 7. The American Corporation as an Employer: Past, Present, and Future Possibilities; 8. The Corporation Faces Issues of Race and Gender; 9. Corporate Education and Training

10. The Modern Corporation as an Efficiency Instrument: The Comparative Contracting Perspective11. The Corporation as a Dispenser of Welfare and Security; 12. Almost Everywhere: Surging Inequality and Falling Real Wages; 13. The Corporation as a Political Actor; 14. Architecture and the Business Corporation; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770247-3

1-280-52882-6

0-19-535571-7

1-4294-0690-9

OCLC:

476012614