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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: corporation as technology
    sub title: re-calibrating corporate governance for a sustainable future
  name:
    name part: Bruner, Christopher M.
    name part: 1972-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
  abstract: "Recent decades have witnessed environmental, social, and economic upheaval, spawning a host of interconnected crises to which major corporations have contributed. This book examines dynamics of the corporate form and corporate law that incentivize harmful corporate excesses, and advances an alternative vision to render corporate activities more sustainable. The corporate form is widely described by reference to a set of purportedly fixed characteristics that strongly prioritize shareholders' interests. Bruner, however, argues that such rigid and static depictions fundamentally misconstrue the nature of the entity and reinforce harmful corporate pathologies that include excessive risk-taking, externalization of costs, and insufficient regard for environmental and social impacts. Bruner presents the corporation not as a fixed and rigid set of legal characteristics, but rather as a dynamic legal technology that policymakers can re-calibrate in varying contexts, and over time, in response to a dynamic landscape. On this view, the corporation represents a set of flexible capacities that facilitate differing approaches to the structure and operations of the board, the allocation of governance powers among various stakeholders, and exposure to liability for corporate decision-making. Bruner conceptualizes these flexible capacities as governance levers that policymakers can adjust in various ways, and in differing combinations, to achieve a range of decision-making structures and levels of risk tolerance, toward a range of potential ends. The book explores theoretical and practical ramifications of this alternative vision, focusing on how the corporate form-properlyform-properly understood-can help secure an environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable future"--
  table of contents: Introduction and overview -- Defining the corporation and Corporate Law -- Contextual drivers of difference -- Enduring controversies in Corporate Law -- The corporation as technology -- Corporate pathologies and corporate sustainability -- Re-calibrating governance : industry-by-industry approaches -- Re-imagining corporate accountability -- Conclusions.
  note: Christopher M. Bruner.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Corporate governance
    topic: Law and legislation
  subject:
    topic: Corporate governance
    topic: Law and legislation
  subject:
    topic: Comparative
  subject:
    topic: LAW
  subject:
    topic: Corporate
  classification: K1327 .B785 2022
  classification: 346/.0664
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    title info:
      title: Corporation as technology
    name:
      name part: Bruner, Christopher M., 1972-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022
    identifier: (DLC) 2021045595
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210920
    record change date: 20260318163526.1
    record identifier: in00005696302
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng