The corporation : a critical, multi-disciplinary handbook / edited by Grietje Baars, Andre Spicer.

"The corporation has become an increasingly dominant force in contemporary society. However, comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the concept of the corporation is often restricted, or limited to one disciplinary approach. This handbook brings together the cutting-edge scholarship, expertise and...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Baars, Grietje, 1972- (Editor), Spicer, AndreĢ (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Why the corporation? / Grietje Baars, Andre Spicer
  • The corporation in history / Philip Stern
  • The corporation in legal studies / Simon Deakin
  • The corporation in economics / William Lazonick
  • The corporation in sociology / Gerald F Davis, Suntae Kim
  • The corporation in anthropology / Robert J Foster
  • The corporation in political science / Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Nana de Graaff
  • The corporation in geography / Andrew Jones
  • The corporation in accounting / Mahmoud Ezzamel, Keith Robson
  • The corporation in management / Jeroen Veldman, Hugh Willmott
  • Between company and state : the dutch east and west india companies as brokers between war and profit / Pepijn Brandon
  • Early modern business projects and a forgotten history of corporate social responsibility / Koji Yamamoto
  • Finance and the origins of modern company law / Paddy Ireland
  • The multinational as a corporate form : a critical contribution from organization studies / Glenn Morgan
  • Embedding the multinational corporation in transnational sustainability governance / Luc Fransen
  • Banks as global corporations : from entities to 'ecological habitats' / Anastasia Nesvetailova, Ronen Palan
  • The structure and agency of financialization / Laura Horn
  • Financialized business models and the corporation / Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Karel Williams
  • Transnational corporations and the international tax haven and offshore : finance system / Sol Picciotto
  • The nature of the firm in global value chains / Elena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Elizabeth Havice
  • The corporation and the global value chain / Jennifer Bair
  • Global production networks and the changing corporation / David Levy, Florence Palpacuer
  • The functions and dysfunctions of corporate social responsibility / Steve Tombs
  • Reconsidering the critical corporate social responsibility perspective through french pragmatic sociology : subverting corporate do-gooding for the common good? / Jean-Pascal Gond
  • Certification schemes and labelling as corporate governance : the value of silence / Tomaso Ferrando
  • The criminal corporate person / David Whyte
  • The fbi on corporate crime : examining the influence of corporate culture / Garry Gray
  • Mental blockades in the recognition of mens rea in corporations / Harmen van der Wilt
  • Bad parresia : CSR and corporate mystification today / Peter Fleming
  • Capital, corporate citizenship and legitimacy : the ideological force of 'corporate crime' / Grietje Baars
  • Corporate foundations and ideology / Inderjeet Parmar
  • Articulating and disarticulating corporation and community / Marina Welker
  • Communities within and without of the corporation : control, power and interests / James Faulconbridge
  • Coercion and corporate power : notes on class struggle in an Indian city / Andrew Sanchez
  • Organizing in the nervous system : global trade unions and global production networks / David Hansen-Miller
  • Rethinking workplace resistance : between revolt and co-optation / Roland Paulsen
  • Anarchist versus corporate ethics / Benjamin Franks
  • Resisting and regulating corporations through ecologies of alternative enterprise : insurance and electricity in the us case / Marc Schneiberg
  • The psychological crisis of the corporation : employee-owned alternatives and futures / William Davies
  • Organization is politics made durable : principles and alternatives / Martin Parker, George Cheney, Valerie Fournier, Chris Land.