Entrepreneurs and Democracy: A Political Theory of Corporate Governance (Business, Value Creation, and Society) - Hardcover

Gomez, Pierre-Yves; Korine, Harry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521856388 ISBN 13: 9780521856386

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

What legitimizes power within a corporation? This question is of concern to the millions of citizens whose lives depend upon the fate of business corporations. The rules, institutions and practices of corporate governance define the limits of the power to direct, and determine under what conditions this power is acceptable. Effective corporate governance has long been defined in terms of economic performance. More recent studies have focused on philosophical, political and historical analyses. Entrepreneurs and Democracy unites these strands of inquiry - the legitimacy of power, the evolution of multiple forms of governance and the economics of performance - and proposes a framework for future study. It explores the opposing tensions of entrepreneurial force and social fragmentation that form the basis of legitimate corporate governance in modern societies. In doing so, it identifies a common logic that links both the democratization of corporate governance and the growth of economic performance.

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About the Author

Harry Korine is Teaching Fellow in Strategic and International Management at the London Business School and Senior Research Fellow at IFGE, Lyon.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521856388
• ISBN 13: 9780521856386
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350