The Embedded Firm: Corporate Governance, Labor, and Finance Capitalism

ISBN: 9781107411685 出版年：2011 页码：500 Cynthia A Williams Peer Zumbansen Cambridge University Press

List of figures List of tables 1. Introduction: corporate governance after the 'end of history': investigating the new 'Great Transformation' Cynthia Williams and Peer Zumbansen Part I. Historical Trajectories of Business and Regulation: 2. Corporate governance and financial crisis in the long run Simon Deakin 3. Financialism: a (very) brief history Lawrence E. Mitchell 4. Legitimating power: the changing status of the board of directors Dalia Tsuk Mitchell 5. Engaging corporate boards: the limits of liability rules in modern corporate governance William T. Allen 6. The primacy of Delaware and the embeddedness of the firm Fenner Stewart 7. The new embeddedness of the corporation: corporate social responsibility in the knowledge society Peer Zumbansen Part II. New Interests, New Shareholder Constellations, New Landscapes: 8. Beyond the Berle and Means paradigm: private equity and the new capitalist order Stephen F. Diamond 9. Pension funds as owners and as financial intermediaries: a review of recent Canadian experience Simon Archer 10. Credit derivatives market design: creating fairness and sustainability Janis Sarra 11. The EU Takeovers Directive: a shareholder or stakeholder model? Blanaid Clarke 12. 'Law and finance': inaccurate, incomplete and important Ruth V. Aguilera and Cynthia A. Williams Part III. Labor's Evolution in the Economy: 13. Labor and finance in the United States Sanford M. Jacoby 14. The conflicting logic of markets and the management of production Suzanne Konzelmann and Frank Wilkinson 15. Organising workers globally - the need for public policy to regulate investment John Evans 16. From governance to political economy: insights from a study of relations between corporations and workers Harry W. Arthurs and Claire Mumme Part IV. The Transnational Embedded Firm and the Financial Crisis: 17. The intellectual foundations of the global financial crisis: analysis and proposals for reform Frank Jan De Graaf and Cynthia A. Williams 18. Why executive pay matters to innovation and inequality William Lazonick 19. Products, perimeters and politics: systemic risk and securities regulation Mary Condon 20. Modernizing pension fund legal standards for the twenty-first century Keith Johnson and Frank Jan De Graaf Part V. Conclusion: 21. Conclusion: evaluation, policy proposals and research agenda Cynthia A. Williams and Peer Zumbansen Index.