Corporate power in civil society : an application of societal constitutionalism / David Sciulli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sciulli, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporation law--Social aspects--United States.

Corporation law.

Judicial power--Social aspects--United States.

Judicial power.

Corporate governance--United States.

Corporate governance.

Social responsibility of business--United States.

Social responsibility of business.

Social contract--United States.

Social contract.

Civil society--United States.

Civil society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The corporate mega-mergers of the 1980's and 1990's 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

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Corporations and Civil Society: Institutional Externalities of Corporate Power; 2 The Turbulence of the 1980's; I Overview and Background; 3 Contractarians and Imposers; 4 Contractarians and Balancers; 5 Major Delaware Decisions of the 1980's and 1990's; 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 for Intermediary Associations 11 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-397) and index.

ISBN:

0-8147-8660-X

OCLC:

779828478