Modern Organisational Governance

Front Cover -- Modern Organisational Governance -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Part I: Theoretical Perspectives -- Modern Organisational Governance: Re-Examining Governance: The Evidence -- Introduction -- Good Governance and Sustainability -- Modern Governance -- Notes -- References -- State, Sovereignty, and Private Regulation: Problématique and Explanandum of Emerging Global Governance Matrix -- Reworking the Role of State and Governance in the Era of Globalization -- Understanding the Power Play -- Re-Embedding the Market -- Concluding Observations -- References -- The Moral Status of Corporations -- Introduction -- Corporate Moral Personhood -- Corporate Internal Decision Structure -- Collectivist Response -- Individualist Contention -- Corporation as a Moral Agent: Pettit's Redemption -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Sustainable Governance: A Sine Qua Non of the Age of Sustainability -- Introduction -- Traditional Governance and Preindustrial Era -- Transitional Governance and Information Era -- Anglo-American Corporate Governance Model -- German Corporate Governance Model -- Japanese Corporate Governance Model -- Keiretsu -- The Age of Sustainability and Anthropocene Epoch -- Systems Thinking -- Sustainable Governance -- Properties of Sustainable Governance -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Sustainability and Resource Depletion -- Introduction -- The Changing Environment -- The Geopolitics of Resource Depletion -- Manufacturing and the External Environment -- The Theory of the Firm -- Transaction Cost Theory -- Organisations as Resource Allocators -- Inefficiencies in the Market -- Strategies for Sustainability -- A Prognosis -- Notes -- References -- Part II: The Role of StakEholders -- Stakeholders: Opportunity or Threat? Voices from China -- Introduction.