Law and reputation how the legal system shapes behavior by producing information Roy Shapira, Interdisciplinary Center (Israel)/University of Chicago

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapira, Roy, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporate governance--Law and legislation.

Corporate governance.

Corporate image.

Corporations--Public relations.

Corporations.

Corporations--Public opinion.

Corporate governance--Law and legislation--United States.

corporate image.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press 2020

Summary:

"The legal system affects behavior not just directly, by imposing sanctions, but also indirectly, by producing information on how people behave. For example, internal company documents exposed during litigation will help third parties assess whether they trust a company and want to keep doing business with it. The law therefore affects behavior by shaping reputations. Drawing on economics, communications, and a nascent multidisciplinary literature on reputation, Roy Shapira highlights how reputation works, and how information from the courtroom affects the court of public opinion, with a particular emphasis on the role of the media. By fleshing out interactions between law and reputation, Shapira corrects common misperceptions about the ability of market forces to discipline corporate behavior and adds to timely, ongoing debates such as the desirability of heightened pleading standards or mandatory arbitration clauses. Law and Reputation should interest any scholar who invokes notions of market discipline in their work"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction

How reputation works

How the legal system affects reputation

Private litigation : corporate law's puzzle

Public Enforcement : The SEC's Settlement practices

Corporate Philanthropy as signaling and co-optation

Regulators' reputation

The case for openness

The case against mandatory arbitration

Conclusion

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - Harvard Law School, 2014)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 02, 2020)

Other Format:

Print version Shapira, Roy, 1976- Law and reputation

ISBN:

9781316890653

1316890651

OCLC:

1192471271

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license