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Corporate governance and enlightened fiduciaries / Christopher C. Nicholls.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicholls, Christopher C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corporate governance.
- Corporations.
- Profit.
- Social responsibility of business.
- Stockholders.
- corporations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- What is the proper purpose of business corporations? Should they focus exclusively on maximizing profits and shareholder value, or should they consider the interests of a broader range of stakeholders and pursue explicit social goals? This old debate has acquired new urgency. The shareholder primacy model that once dominated corporate law theory and practice has been fiercely challenged in a world threatened with climate change, growing wealth inequality, and disruptive political polarization. Yesterday's earnest calls for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) have given way to today's politically-charged debates surrounding the business and politics of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance factors). Corporate Governance and Enlightened Fiduciaries explores the origins of shareholder primacy and the nuances of the modern debates.
- Contents:
- The purpose of corporate purpose or the end of the business corporation
- Fiat or accord?
- The ‘Berle-and-Means spirited’ corporation
- The prophets and profits of shareholder primacy part I : in search of the right side of history (and the left side of the balance sheet)
- The prophets and profits of shareholder primacy part II
- The corporation as a nexus of conflicts : anomie of the people
- How does a corporation do? CSR and ESG : doing well by doing good? doing good by doing well?
- Whose corporation is it anyway? Myopic gadflies and institutional share ownership : is shareholder activism a short-sighted solution?
- The deconstructed corporation : financial innovation and the clouding of corporate duties.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed March 31, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Nicholls, Christopher C. Corporate governance and enlightened fiduciaries
- ISBN:
- 9780198904199
- 0198904193
- 9780198904182
- 0198904185
- OCLC:
- 1574527136
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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