The search for the virtuous corporation : a wicked problem or new direction for organization theory? / Justin O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, Justin (Peter Justin), author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in organization theory, 2397-947X.

Cambridge elements. Elements in organization theory, 2397-947X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporations.

International business enterprises.

Social responsibility of business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (57 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

The corporation is the most complex, adaptive, and resilient model of organizing economic activity in history. In an era of globalization, the transnational corporation has significant power over society. While its rights are specified through private ordering, and choice of jurisdictional home, in the event of conflict of laws, the corporation's duties and responsibilities remain contested. Notwithstanding the argument in institutional economics that all transactions take place within governance and legal frameworks, underpinned by a 'non-calculative social contract,' the terms are notoriously difficult to define or enforce. They are made more so if regulatory dynamics preclude litigation to a judicial conclusion. This Element situates the corporation - its culture, governance, responsibility, and accountability - within a broader discourse of duty. In doing so, it addresses the problem of the corporation for society and the corporation's problem in aligning its governance to changing community expectations of obligation.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

The Search for the Virtuous Corporation

Dedication

Contents

1 Regulating Conduct and Securing Optimized Outcomes

1.1 The Point of Purpose

1.2 Creative Destruction and Destructive Creation

1.3 Bringing the Corporate Order Back In

1.4 The Corporation and the Limits of Enacted Law

1.5 Distinguishing Virtue from Values

2 Sympathy, Empathy, and the Pursuit of Reason

2.1 The Siren Call of Chrematistic Logic

2.2 Resetting the Board

3 Ethics and Risk

3.1 What We Look for Determines What We See

3.2 Law as Culture

3.3 Culture as Desire or Responsibility?

4 Withering on the Vine: The Future of the Corporation

References

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Sep 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-98534-3

1-108-98602-1

1-108-97936-X

OCLC:

1285168495